Why do ye ask ?" "Because I like the place and the people so much that I would like to study it and them, and to sketch the scenery." "Business before pleasure, my lad," said the captain with a grave shake of the head.

"You know we've bin blown out of our course, and have no business here at all.

I'll only wait till the carpenter completes his repairs, and then be off for Batavia.

Duty first; everything else afterwards." "But you being owner as well as commander, there is no one to insist on duty being done," objected Nigel.
"Pardon me," returned the captain, "there is a certain owner named Captain David Roy, a very stern disciplinarian, who insists on the commander o' this here brig performin' his duty to the letter.

You may depend upon it that if a man ain't true to himself he's not likely to be true to any one else.