"And I don't doubt we shall find the English papers have copied it, when we get to Liverpool.

If you will take my advice, sir, you will cultivate a sagacious insensibility to the comments of the press." "Do you think I care for myself ?" Amelius asked indignantly.

"It's the poor woman I am thinking of.

What can I do to clear her character ?" "Well, sir," suggested Rufus, "in your place, I should have a notification circulated through the ship, announcing a lecture on the subject (weather permitting) in the course of the afternoon.

That's the way we should do it at Coolspring." Amelius listened without conviction.