Shame to the first man down!' 'That won't be I,' said Temple.
'Be me, sir, me,' the captain corrected his grammar.
'Pardon me, Captain Bulsted; the verb "To be" governs the nominative case in our climate,' said Temple.
'Then I'm nominative hic...

I say, sir, I'm in the tropics, Mr.Tem ...
Mr.Tempus.Point of honour, not forget a man's name.

Rippenger, your schoolmaster?
Mr.Rippenger, you've knocked some knowledge into this young gentleman.' Temple and I took counsel together hastily; we cried in a breath: 'Here 's to Julia Rippenger, the prettiest, nicest girl living!' and we drank to her.
'Julia!' the captain echoed us.

'I join your toast, gentlemen.

Mr.
Richmond, Mr.Tempus-Julia! By all that's holy, she floats a sinking ship! Julia consoles me for the fairest, cruellest woman alive.