He had got the worst side of some bargains that week; but his wife had another way of thinking.
"Why, Captain Carroway, whatever could be purer?
When you were at sea, had you ever a man of the downright principles of Nelson ?" "Nelson has done very well in his way; but he is a man who has risen too fast, as other men rise too slowly.

Nothing in him; no substance, madam; I knew him as a youngster, and I could have tossed him on a marling-spike.

And instead of feeding well, Sir, he quite wore himself away.

To my firm knowledge, he would scarcely turn the scale upon a good Frenchman of half of the peas.

Every man should work his own way up, unless his father did it for him.