He knows so much about seamanship that he could take a ship through any rocks on his course, blindfold--in his own opinion.

I always doubt a man who is so much at home in his subject that he never has to think about it.

Most things in this world are done by thinking." "We can't see the Ushant light," Hilda remarked, looking ahead.
"No; there's a little haze about on the horizon, I fancy.

See, the stars are fading away.

It begins to feel damp.