He should keep himself fit for shocks.

And he can take my word for it--for I've been at sea since I was a kid, worse luck!--that a man with anything to do on a ship ought to travel every day nose out for shipwreck next day, and so on, port to port.

Ship-surgeons, as well as all other officers, weren't ordained to follow after cambric skirts and lace handkerchiefs at sea.

Believe me or not as you like, but, for a man having work to do, woman, lovely woman, is rocks.

Now, I suppose you'll think I'm insolent, for I'm younger than you are, Marmion, but you know what a rough-and-tumble fellow I am, and you'll not mind." "Well, Hungerford," I said, "to what does this lead ?" "To Number 116 Intermediate, for one thing.