Sir, many a man dies in his bed with all his kin around, and does not carry as much love with him as she did.
_Why-a_! The thought of that hour brings a pain to my heart yet--and it is thirty years ago." "You are a true sailor, Captain." "To be sure I am.

As the Fife men say, 'I was born with the sea in my mouth.' I thank God for it! Often I have met Him on the great deep, for 'His path is on the waters.' I don't believe I would have found Him as easy and as often, in a cotton-spinning factory--no, I don't!" "A good man like you, Captain, ought to have a wife and a home." "I'm not sure of that, Mr.Hatton.On my ship at sea I am lord and master, and my word is law as long as I stop at sea.

If any man does not like my word and way, he can leave my ship at the first land we touch, and I see that he does so.

But it is different with a wife.

She is in your house to stay, whether you like it or not.