Yes; and I mean to see her before this vessel arrives in port." "But if the lady in question refuses to have anything to say to you ?" "We shall soon put that to the test.

I have been too ill to stir ever since I came on board, or you would have heard of me before this, Mr.
Nowell.

Now that I can move about once more, I shall find a way to assert my claims, you may be sure.

But in the first place, I want to know by what right you stole my wife away from her home--by what right you brought her on this voyage ?" "Before I answer that question, Mr .-- Mr.Holbrook, as you choose to call yourself, I'll ask you another.

By what right do you call yourself my daughter's husband?
what evidence have you to produce to prove that you are not a bare-faced impostor?
You don't carry your marriage-certificate about with you, I daresay; and in the absence of some kind of documentary evidence, what is to convince me that you are what you pretend to be--my daughter's husband ?" "The evidence of your daughter's own senses.