If we live, we shall see Sir Gervaise one of the most distinguished knights of the Order." "While I feel gratified indeed, as I may well be by your commendation, Sir John, I must, under your favour, say that you have given me a far greater degree of credit than is my due.

There was the fire, and there was the sail, and the thought that the one would destroy the other was simply a natural one, which might have occurred to a child.

As to the plan about the boat, seeing that there was the hill and the wood, it flashed upon me at once that we might make a circuit and come back to her." "Just so, lad; but those thoughts did not flash upon my mind, nor upon that of Harcourt.

It is just because those sort of ideas do flash upon the minds of some men, and not of others, that the first rise to the rank of distinguished commanders, while the others remain simple knights who would play their part in a charge or in the defence of a breach, but would be of no account as leaders.
"Now row along steadily, men," he went on, speaking to the slaves.
"We are still in good time, for it was not an hour from the moment we touched the island to our departure from it, and much of that time we have gained by the speed with which you rowed before.

At any rate, we shall make out the island before sunset, and whether we arrive there a little sooner or later matters little.