Have you considered what will befall those half-dozen women in the soldiers' berths?
Have you thought of the fate of your own wife and child ?" Vickers shuddered.
"Have it your way, Mr.Pine; you know best perhaps.

But don't risk more lives than you can help." "Be easy, sir," says old Pine; "I am acting for the best; upon my soul I am.

You don't know what convicts are, or rather what the law has made 'em--yet--" "Poor wretches!" says Vickers, who, like many martinets, was in reality tender-hearted.

"Kindness might do much for them.

After all, they are our fellow-creatures." "Yes," returned the other, "they are.