Only a few close friends knew how his half-pay was invested.

There remained perhaps ten of the old war-crew, and among them every Christmas the admiral's half-pay was divided.

This and his daughter were the two unalloyed joys of his life.
Since his country had no further use for him, and as it was as necessary as air to his lungs that he tread the deck of a ship, he had purchased the _Laura_; and, when he was not stirring up the bones of dead pirates, he was at Cowes or at Brest or at Keil or on the Hudson, wherever the big fellows indulged in mimic warfare.
"That will be all this morning, Mr.Breitmann," he said, rising and looking out of the port-hole.
"Very well, sir.

I believe that by the time we make Corsica we shall have the book ready for the printers.

It is very interesting." "Much obliged.