Still, though it would be hard to have parted from him in any way, it is harder still to part like this.

If he was to go, he need not have gone as a common sailor.

The squire, who has done so much for him, would no doubt, instead of sending him to school, have obtained a midshipman's berth for him, or a commission in the army; but it is dreadful to think of him as a common sailor, liable to be flogged." "Well, Mrs.Walsham, perhaps we may set the matter partly to rights.

I will speak to the squire, and I am sure he will write to his friend at the admiralty, and have an order sent out, at once, for Jim's discharge.

At the same time, it would be better that he should not return here just at present.