Then again, it was, perhaps, just as well for a number of reasons to have him under the captain's care.

He might become so fond of the sea as to want to follow it all his life.
"What do you think about it, Lucy ?" asked Jane.
"Oh, I don't know anything about it.

I don't really.

I've lived so long away from here I don't know what the young men are doing for a living.
He's always been fond of the sea, has he not, Captain Holt ?" "Allus," said the captain doggedly; "it's in his blood." Her answer nettled him.

"You ain't got no objections, have you, ma'am ?" he asked, looking straight at Lucy.
Lucy's color came and went.