"So you've got this fly-away back again?
Where are ye?
By jingo! let me look at you.

Why! why! why! Did you ever! What have you been doing to yourself, lassie, that you should shed your shell like a bug and come out with wings like a butterfly?
Why you're the prettiest thing I've seen since I got home from my last voyage." He had Lucy by both bands now, and was turning her about as if she had been one of Ann Gossaway's models.
"Have I changed, Captain Holt ?" "No--not a mite.

You've got a new suit of flesh and blood on your bones, that's all.

And it's the best in the locker.

Well! Well! WELL!" He was still twisting her around.