Let us finish the walk," savagely.
On the afternoon of the second day out, tea was served under the awning, and Captain Flanagan condescended to leave his bridge for half an hour.

Through a previous hint dropped by the admiral they lured the captain into spinning yarns; and well-salted hair-breadth escapes they were.

He understood that the admiral's guests always expected these flights, and he was in nowise niggard.

An ordinary sailor would have been dead these twenty years, under any one of the exploits.
"Marvelous!" said M.Ferraud from the depths of his rugs.

"And he still lives to tell it ?" "It's the easiest thing in the world, sir, if y' know how," the captain declared complacently.