He could not but doubt; and his talk was like the sails of a big ship rattling to the first puff of wind.

He had to believe; and then, we read, he was for hours like a vessel rolling in the trough of the sea.
Of course he was a disappointed father.

Naturally his glance at the loss to Henrietta of the greatest prize of the matrimonial market of all Europe and America was vexing and saddening.

Then he woke up to think of the fortunes of his 'other girl,' as he named her, and cried: 'Crinny catches him!' He cried it in glee and rubbed his hands.
So thereupon, standing before him, Chillon John, from whom he had the news, bent to him slightly, as his elegant manner was, and lengthened the admiral's chaps with another proposal; easy, deliberate, precise, quite the respectful bandit, if you please, determined on having his daughter by all means, only much preferring the legal, formal, and friendly.

Upon that, in the moment of indecision, Henrietta enters, followed by Admiral Baldwin's heroine, his Crinny, whom he embraced and kissed, congratulated and kissed again.