And no sooner he's provided for than he turns you on.

You youngsters don't seem to mind whom you get into trouble." "It was my turn now to stare with surprise and curiosity.

He hadn't been talking loud but he lowered his voice still more.
"Don't you know it's illegal ?" "I wondered what he was driving at till I remembered that procuring a berth for a sailor is a penal offence under the Act.

That clause was directed of course against the swindling practices of the boarding-house crimps.

It had never struck me it would apply to everybody alike no matter what the motive, because I believed then that people on shore did their work with care and foresight.
"I was confounded at the idea, but Mr.Powell made me soon see that an Act of Parliament hasn't any sense of its own.