"Wasn't Heman grand?
I should so like to have heard him.

Didn't Cap'n Whittaker look ashamed of himself ?" "No, he did not.

If anyone looked ashamed it was Mr.Atkins and his friends.

Perhaps I ought to tell you that my sympathies are entirely with Captain Whittaker in this affair.

To give that little girl up to a drunken scoundrel like her father would, in my opinion, be a crime." The boarders and the landlady gasped.