And who fears it much, when it, is so dilatory, and so weak, and so doubtful into the bargain?
He succumbed in silence for two days; and then, in spite of Wylie's threat, he made one timid attempt to approach the subject with Welch and Cooper; but a sailor came up instantly, and sent them forward to reef topsails.

And, whenever he tried to enter into conversation with the pair, some sailor or other was sure to come up and listen.
Then he saw that he was spotted; or, as we say nowadays, picketed.
He was at his wit's end.
He tried his last throw.

He wrote a few lines to Miss Rolleston, requesting an interview.

Aware of the difficulties he had to encounter here, he stilled his heart by main force, and wrote in terms carefully measured.

He begged her to believe he had no design to intrude upon her, without absolute necessity, and for her own good.