The life was easy and he was too sure of himself--too sure of himself to.

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The line dividing his meditation from a surreptitious doze on his feet was thinner than a thread in a spider's web.
The second engineer was coming by easy transitions to the consideration of his finances and of his courage.
'Who's drunk?
I?
No, no, captain! That won't do.

You ought to know by this time the chief ain't free-hearted enough to make a sparrow drunk, b'gosh.

I've never been the worse for liquor in my life; the stuff ain't made yet that would make _me_ drunk.