It was quite hard work getting on with him.

Now he seems quite a man." "Nothing like that yet, Mabel," Ralph protested.
"Not a man!" Mr.Penfold exclaimed.

"What! after wandering about as a pirate, capturing ships, and cutting men's throats for anything I know, and taking part in all sorts of atrocities?
I think he's entitled to think himself very much a man." Ralph laughed.
"Not as bad as that, Mr.Penfold.They did take one ship, but I had nothing to do with it; and there were no throats cut.

I simply made a voyage out and back as a boy before the mast; and, as far as I hare been concerned, the ship might have been a peaceful trader instead of a French privateer." "Well, Mary, you have not changed much all these years," Mr.Penfold said turning to Mrs.Conway, while the two young people began to talk to each other.

"I had thought you would be much more changed; but time has treated you much more kindly than it has me.