Eh?
You don't care?
Once in a bloomin' lifetime." With a seafaring bellow, he helped Rudolph to hail the servants' quarters.

A pair of cooks, a pair of Number Twos, and all the "learn-pidgin" youngsters of two households came shuffling into the court; and arriving guests found all hands broaching cargo, in a loud confusion of orders and miscomprehension.
The captain's dinner was the more brilliant.

Throughout the long, white room, in the slow breeze of the punkah, scores of candles burned soft and tremulous, as though the old days had returned when the brown sisters lighted their refectory; but never had their table seen such profusion of viands, or of talk and laughter.

The Saigon stores--after daily fare--seemed of a strange and Corinthian luxury.

The captain's wine proved excellent.