"Captain, you're quite right.

Our initial velocity very fortunately was much greater than what our Cambridge friends had calculated for us!" "Hang our Cambridge friends and their calculations!" cried Ardan, with some asperity; "as usual with your scientific men they've more brass than brains! If we're not now bed-fellows with the oysters in the Gulf of Mexico, no thanks to our kind Cambridge friends.

But talking of oysters, let me remind you again that breakfast is ready." The meal was a most joyous one.

They ate much, they talked more, but they laughed most.

The little incident of Algebra had certainly very much enlivened the situation.
"Now, my boys," Ardan went on, "all things thus turning out quite comfortable, I would just ask you why we should not succeed?
We are fairly started.