The last time I saw him he was about a yard high." "He is a good bit short of two yards now," said the Admiral, smiling as he thought of him, "but quite tall enough for a sailor, Dolly, and the most active young man I ever saw in my life, every inch of him sound and quick and true.

I shall think very little of your judgment unless you like him heartily; not at first, perhaps, because he is so shy, but as soon as you begin to know him.

I mean to ask him to come down as soon as he can get a holiday.

His captain told me, when he served in the Diomede, that there was not a man in the ship to come near him for nimbleness and quiet fearlessness." "Then what made him take to his books again?
Oh, how terribly dull he must find them! Why, that must be Stonnington church, on the hill!" "Yes, and the old grammar school close by.

I was very near going there once myself, but they sent me to Winchester instead.