"I think I will," he said.

"I'm dog tired, and as sleepy as an owl," and he descended the poop ladder.
Pine took a couple of turns up and down the deck, and then catching Blunt's eye, stopped in front of Vickers.
"You may think it a hard thing to say, Captain Vickers, but it's just as well if we don't find these poor devils.

We have quite enough on our hands as it is." "What do you mean, Mr.Pine ?" says Vickers, his humane feelings getting the better of his pomposity.

"You would not surely leave the unhappy men to their fate." "Perhaps," returned the other, "they would not thank us for taking them aboard." "I don't understand you." "The fever has broken out." Vickers raised his brows.

He had no experience of such things; and though the intelligence was startling, the crowded condition of the prison rendered it easy to be understood, and he apprehended no danger to himself.
"It is a great misfortune; but, of course, you will take such steps--" "It is only in the prison, as yet," says Pine, with a grim emphasis on the word; "but there is no saying how long it may stop there.