I tell you again, lad, that the grape bit deep.

It hurts me all the time to think I was lured under those guns by a silly old fiddler and a couple of silly sailors dancing to his silly tune.
You're a good lad, Peter, I give you credit for it, and since, beside myself, only one on board the schooner was saved, I'm glad it was you and not a member of the crew." "We don't know that others were not saved.

We haven't had time yet to see." "I know they weren't.

It's only a miracle that we two came through the reefs.

Miracles may happen, Peter, but they don't happen often.