Please come along and let me show you your room.
Supper will be ready in a minute or two, and here are we stopping and forgetting that you and Mr.Penfold must be almost famished." As soon as they had sat down to supper, Mr.Penfold said.

"By the way, Ralph, I have a piece of news for you.

We stopped a couple of days, you know, in town, and I saw my friend at the Horse Guards, and had a chat about you.

He seemed to think that you would be better if you were a few months older; but as he acknowledged that many commissions had been given to lads under sixteen, and as you had just arrived at that age, and as I told him you have had no end of experience with pirates and buccaneers, and all that sort of thing, he was silenced, and your commission will appear in the next _Gazette_." "Oh, Mr.Penfold!" Ralph exclaimed as he leaped from his seat in delight.

"I am obliged to you.