The fact of it is, you are such a tremendous fellow, there will be no room for any other officer to shine in the same sky." "I have been in command for a few days, hardly more than a week, but I assure you that I can and shall obey the orders of my commander to the very letter," added Christy.
"But you took two steamers, each of them of nearly twice the tonnage of your own ship, in mid ocean." "But I took them one at a time.

If I had fallen in with both at the same time, the affair might have gone the other way.

We captured the first one by accident, as it were, and the second with double the force of the enemy.

I don't take much credit to myself for that sort of thing.
I don't think it was half as much of an affair as bringing out the Teaser, for we had to use some science on that occasion," replied Christy quietly.
"Science, is it ?" laughed Mr.Blowitt.

"Perhaps you can assist me to some of your science, when it is required." "I shall obey my superior officer, and not presume to advise him unless he asks me to do so." "Well, Christy, I think you are the most audacious young fellow I ever met," added the future commander of the Bronx.
"I haven't anything about me that I call audacity, so far as I understand myself.