He is quite a good-natured man." "Extremely kind and considerate," hastily added Mr.Mott, reassuringly.
"But I don't want to loaf my passage home," protested Percival.

"I want to be sentenced to the hardest sort of labour, if you don't mind.

I don't want to owe this steamship company a penny when I step ashore.

It is your duty, sir, as master of this ship, to put me on the meanest job you've got." "My word!" exclaimed Captain Trigger.
"I'm blessed!" said Mr.Mott.
"Up where I've been running things and cock-walking like a foreman in a shirt-waist factory, I made the rules and I enforced them.

I want to say to you that no favours were shown.