Hang up his clothes in the cook's galley, they will be dry by the time he wakes." Ralph asked no questions, as he was taken forward, as to the character of La Belle Marie.

Six guns were ranged along on each side of her decks, and this, and the appearance of the captain's cabin, was sufficient to inform him that he had fallen into the hands of a French privateer.

The craft had, indeed, left Dunkirk soon after nightfall, and was making her way down channel with every sail set when she had run down the unfortunate fishing boat.
Jacques, as he hung up the hammock, explained to the sailors who crowded round the character of the passenger who had so unexpectedly come on board.
"Poor lad," one of the sailors said good-naturedly, "he will be some time before he sees his mother again.

He hasn't got a very bright lookout before him--a long voyage, and then a prison.

I will go and see if the cook has got some water hot.