Thou sees she thinks a deal on him for a spirited chap, as can do what he will.

I belie' me she first began to think on him time o' t' fight aboard th' _Good Fortune_, when Darley were killed, and he would seem tame-like to her if he couldn't conquer press-gangs, and men-o'-war.

She's sooner think on him drowned, as she's ne'er to see him again.' 'It's best so,' said Philip, and then, to calm his unusually excited aunt, he promised to avoid the subject of the press-gang as much as possible.
But it was a promise very difficult of performance, for Daniel Robson was, as his wife said, like one possessed.

He could hardly think of anything else, though he himself was occasionally weary of the same constantly recurring idea, and would fain have banished it from his mind.

He was too old a man to be likely to be taken by them; he had no son to become their victim; but the terror of them, which he had braved and defied in his youth, seemed to come back and take possession of him in his age; and with the terror came impatient hatred.