'But think, for the boys' and my sake, if not for your own, what are we to do to get richer ?' 'Well,' he said, becoming serious, 'to tell the truth, I have always felt myself unfit for this business, though I've never liked to say so.

I seem to want more room for sprawling; a more open space to strike out in than here among friends and neighbours.

I could get rich as well as any man, if I tried my own way.' 'I wish you would! What is your way ?' 'To go to sea again.' She had been the very one to keep him at home, hating the semi-widowed existence of sailors' wives.

But her ambition checked her instincts now, and she said: 'Do you think success really lies that way ?' 'I am sure it lies in no other.' 'Do you want to go, Shadrach ?' 'Not for the pleasure of it, I can tell 'ee.

There's no such pleasure at sea, Joanna, as I can find in my back parlour here.