Foreigners would be best, but it would look uncommonly rum for the Phantom to be cruising about with a foreign crew.

Besides, I know men in almost every port I should put into." "Couldn't you alter her rig, or something of that sort, so that she could not be recognised?
It seems to me that if you were to take her across to some foreign port, pay off the crew there and send them home, then get her altered and ship a foreign crew, you might cruise about as long as you liked, especially abroad, without a soul being any the wiser; and the girl must sooner or later give in, and if she would not you could make her." "That is a big idea, Jim.

Yes, if I once got my lady on board you may be sure that she would have to say yes sooner or later.

I don't often forgive, and it would be a triumph to make her pay for the dressing down she gave me this morning.

Besides, I am really fond of her, and I could forgive her for that outbreak, which I suppose was natural enough, after we were married, and there is no reason why we should not get on very well together.
"I tell you what, I will go down the first thing tomorrow to Southampton, and will sail at once for Ostend.