Please don't indulge in great oaths or stamp a hole in this sturdy deck, but there are flowers in my state-room--" "Probably from the Liverpool consul--he's been pestering father to help him get a transfer to a less gloomy hole." "Then I shall intercede myself with the President when I get home.
They're orchids--from London--but--with Mr.Armitage's card.

Wouldn't that excite you ?" "It makes me sick!" and Dick hung heavily on the rail and glared at a passing tug.
"They are beautiful orchids.

I don't remember when orchids have happened to me before, Richard--in such quantities.

Now, you really didn't disapprove of him so much, did you?
This is probably good-by forever, but he wasn't so bad; and he may be an American, after all." "A common adventurer! Such fellows are always turning up, like bad pennies, or a one-eyed dog.

If I should see him again--" "Yes, Richard, if you should meet again--" "I'd ask him to be good enough to stop following us about, and if he persisted I should muss him up." "Yes; I'm sure you would protect me from his importunities at any hazard," mocked Shirley, turning and leaning against the rail so that she looked along the deck beyond her brother's stalwart shoulders.
"Don't be silly," observed Dick, whose eyes were upon a trim yacht that was steaming slowly beneath them.
"I shan't, but please don't be violent! Do not murder the poor man, Dickie, dear,"-- and she took hold of his arm entreatingly--"for there he is--as tall and mysterious as ever--and me found guilty with a few of his orchids pinned to my jacket!" "This is good fortune, indeed," said Armitage a moment later when they had shaken hands.