To sink with flag flying is next to sinking the enemy.

There was talk of a girl present at the fight, and of how she received the eyeless, almost faceless, carcase of her sweetheart Kit, and carried him away in a little donkey-cart, comfortably cushioned to meet disaster.

This petty incident drew the attention of the Earl of Fleetwood, then beginning to be known as the diamond of uncounted facets, patron of the pick of all departments of manly activity in England.
The devotion of the girl Madge to her sweetheart was really a fine story.

Fleetwood touched on it to Mr.Mallard, speaking of it like the gentleman he could be, while Chumley Potts wagged impatient acquiescence in a romantic episode of the Ring, that kept the talk from the hotter theme.
'Money's Bank of England to-day, you think ?' he interposed, and had his answer after Mallard had said: 'The girl 's rather good-looking, too.' 'You may double your bets, Chummy.

I had the fellow to his tea at my dinner-table yesterday evening; locked him in his bedroom, and had him up and out for a morning spin at six.