Now, captain, I am at your service, if you please, unless you feel too sleepy." "Mistress Anerley, I never felt more wide-awake in all my life.

We of the service must snatch a wink whenever we can, but with one eye open; and it is not often that we see such charming sights." The farmer's wife having set the beds to "plump," had stolen a look at the glass, and put on her second-best Sunday cap, in honor of a real officer; and she looked very nice indeed, especially when she received a compliment.

But she had seen too much of life to be disturbed thereby.
"Ah, Captain Carroway, what ways you have of getting on with simple people, while you are laughing all the time at them! It comes of the foreign war experience, going on so long that in the end we shall all be foreigners.

But one place there is that you never can conquer, nor Boneypart himself, to my belief." "Ah, you mean Flamborough--Flamborough, yes! It is a nest of cockatrices." "Captain, it is nothing of the sort.

It is the most honest place in all the world.