How the pompous old owl will fret and fume! But he will have to find the money for all that.

He can't begin the campaign by dishonoring bills of her majesty's general, or no one would trust us hereafter.

You haven't seen my lord treasurer, Mr.
Stilwell ?" "No, sir, I have not been at court at all." "That's a pity," the earl said; "for you lose the cream of the joke.
Now, I shall go on shore tomorrow and get everything that is wanted, and then the sooner we are off the better; we have been here a fortnight, and I am sick of the place." Jack was by no means sick of Lisbon, for he enjoyed himself vastly.

The town was full of troops--English, Dutch, and Portuguese.

Of an evening there were fetes and galas of all kinds, and as the earl always attended these, Jack and the other young officers were permitted to go ashore either in full uniform to take part in the fetes, or to enjoy themselves according to their fancies.
As Graham had predicted, it was some time before any conclusion was arrived at as to the destination of the fleet.