After that he began to make reprisals, according to his manner, taking no trouble to regard the women--which debarred them from thinking much of him--but settling with a steady gaze at each sea-faring man, whether he was made of good stuff or of pie-crust.

And to the credit of the place it must be said that he found very little of that soft material, but plenty of good stuff, slow, perhaps, and heavy, but needing only such a soul as his to rouse it.
"What a fine set of fellows you have in your village!" he said to Miss Darling after dinner, as she sat at the head of her father's table, for the Admiral had long been a widower.

"The finest I have seen on the south coast anywhere.

And they look as if they had been under some training.

I suppose your father had most of them in the Fencibles, last summer ?" "Not one of them," Faith answered, with a sweet smile of pride.