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The Two Admirals

CHAPTER XVI
12/24

We are about to get the ships under way, and good men ought to be in their places.

Good-by, Admiral Blue.

We shall meet before the face of the French, and then I expects every man on us will set an example to himself of courage and devotion." "That fellow grows worse and worse, each day, and I shall have to send him forward, in order to check his impertinence," said Sir Gervaise, half-vexed and half-laughing.

"I wonder you stand his saucy familiarity as well as you appear to do--with his Admiral Blues!" "I shall take offence as soon as I find Sir Jarvy really out of humour with him.

The man is brave, honest, and attached; and these are virtues that would atone for a hundred faults." "Let the fellow go to the devil!--Do you not think I had better go out, without waiting for despatches from town ?" "It is hard to say.


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