What has brought you ashore?
Galleygo tells us something of a cutter's coming in, with information that the French are out; but _his_ news is usually _galley_-news." "Not always, Sir Gervaise," returned the lieutenant, casting a side-look at the steward, who often comforted him with ship's delicacies in the admiral's cabin; "this time, he is right, at least.

The Active is coming in slowly, and has been signalling us all the morning.

We make her out to say that Monsieur Vervillin is at sea with his whole force." "Yes," muttered Galleygo to the rear-admiral, in a sort of aside; "the County of Fairvillain has come out of his hole, just as I told Sir Jarvy.

Fair-weather-villains they all is, and no bones broken." "Silence--and you think, Bunting, you read the signals clearly ?" "No doubt of it, Sir Gervaise.

Captain Greenly is of the same opinion, and has sent me ashore with the news.