After that the Dover's chaps took my part, and they said the Hedworths had no Head_work_ at all, but they were regular sailors; admirals, and captains, and youngsters, you know, sir, like all the rest of us.

I told 'em my grandfather Hedworth was an admiral, and a good one, too." "In that you made a small mistake.

Your mother's father was only a _general_; but _his_ father was a full admiral of the red,--for he lived before that grade was abolished--and as good an officer as ever trod a plank.

He was my mother's brother, and both Sir Gervaise and myself served long under his orders.

He was a sailor of whom you well might boast." "I don't think any of the Plantagenets will chase in that quarter again, sir; for we've had an overhauling among our chaps, and we find we can muster four admirals, two commodores, and thirteen captains in our two messes; that is, counting all sorts of relatives, you know, sir." "Well, my dear boy, I hope you may live to reckon all that and more too, in your own persons, at some future day.