I don't think she would have agreed to Jack Hawley being of the party, had not Bertha entertained a conviction that he was rather gone on Miss Sinclair, who by the way has, like her sister, money enough to disregard the fact that Jack is hardly in that respect well endowed.
"However, it is time for me to be off; I see the skipper is getting the gig lowered.

I suppose you will be content to sit here and smoke your pipe until we come back; and, indeed, seven is as many as the gig will carry with any degree of comfort.

The cutter will go ashore to fetch off the luggage, which will probably be of somewhat portentous dimensions." Two minutes later Mallett took his place in the gig, and was rowed to the shore.

He was delighted, with his new purchase.

She was an excellent sea boat, and, as he had learned from a short spin with another craft, decidedly fast.