Said Blair, "I notice that the professor's been rather reticent since we mariners rescued him." "I am not quite a hero, and that last night on the _Haughty Belle_ isn't the kind of thing that makes a man talkative.

Then that poor silly soul down below gave me a good deal to think about.

He must have suffered enough to make the rack seem gentle, and yet the good blockhead only thought of telling us to leave him alone in case the vessel went.

Did you ever know, Miss Dearsley, of a man doing such a thing before?
And you see he hasn't said anything since he came aboard, except that he never knowed what a real bed was afore.

These things take me.