"You are to command your own ship within the year." "No such luck!" the mate answered, with a pleased smile upon his mahogany face, "still, there's no saying how things may come out.

What d'ye think of him, Mr.West ?" "Why," said I, "I am very much interested in him.

What a magnificent head and bearing he has for a young man.

I suppose he cannot be more than thirty." "Forty," said the mate.
"Sixty, if he is a day," remarked Captain Meadows.

"Why, I have heard him talk quite familiarly of the first Afghan war.