Have you digested any plan for your future operations; and what part am I to play in it ?" Sir Gervaise paced the room, with hands folded behind his back, in an air of deep contemplation, for quite five minutes, before he answered.
All this time, Bluewater remained watching his countenance and movements, in anticipation of what was to come.

At length, the vice-admiral appeared to have made up his mind, and he delivered himself of his decision, as follows.
"I have reflected on them, Dick," he said, "even while my thoughts have seemed to be occupied with the concerns of others.

If de Vervillin is out, he must still be to the eastward of us; for, running as the tides do on the French coast, he can hardly have made much westing with this light south-west wind.

We are yet uncertain of his destination, and it is all-important that we get immediate sight of him, and keep him in view, until he can be brought to action.

Now, my plan is this.