"All the same, he knows his job and has got one move up.

Perhaps if he sticks to it, for a year or two--" Miss Grant stopped him and asked Barbara's views about curtains.

She had some patterns, and while they contrasted the material and the prices the door opened and a greasy, red-haired fellow gave the group a benevolent grin.
"Was thim doughnuts all right ?" he inquired.
"I've had better, but you've made some worse, Mike," Robertson replied.
"Yez said _tea for two_.

If ye'd told me it was a party, I'd have been afther stealing the captain's Cork butter.

A cook cannot do his best whin the shore-steward sends him engine-grease.