Tut, mother, it's not a four years' cruise this time.

I'll be back every month or two.

It's no more than if I went for a visit in the country." He was talking boisterously, and heaping his sea-boots and sextants back into his chest.
"And you really think, my dear friend, of hoisting your pennant again ?" "My pennant, Walker?
No, no.

Her Majesty, God bless her, has too many young men to need an old hulk like me.

I should be plain Mr.Hay Denver, of the merchant service.