All the same, I'm rather queerly fixed.

My owners'll have to rank with the rest on their charter-party.

Here am I, their representative! and I have to look over the ship's side while the bankrupt walks his assets ashore in Mr.Speedy's hat-box.

It's a thing I wouldn't do for James G.Blaine; but I'll do it for you, Mr.Dodd, and only sorry I can't do more." "Thank you, captain; my mind is made up," said I."I'll go straight, RUAT COELUM! I never understood that old tag before to-night." "I hope it isn't my business that decides you ?" asked the captain.
"I'll never deny it was an element," said I."I hope, I hope I'm not cowardly; I hope I could steal for Jim myself; but when it comes to dragging in you and Speedy, and this one and the other, why, Jim has got to die, and there's an end.

I'll try and work for him when I get to 'Frisco, I suppose; and I suppose I'll fail, and look on at his death, and kick myself: it can't be helped--I'll fight it on this line." "I don't say as you're wrong," replied Nares, "and I'll be hanged if I know if you're right.