I have no doubt that the sea air will quite set her up again.

It performs almost miracles on the homeward-bound passengers.
They come on board looking pale, and listless, and washed out; at the end of a month at sea, they are different creatures altogether." The purser had taken pains to seat Mrs.Holland, at table, next to a person who would be a pleasant companion for her; and the lady she was now talking to was the wife of a chaplain in the army.

She had, a year before, returned from India in the Madras, and he knew her to be a kind and pleasant woman.
Dick did not care for his cabin mates.

They were young fellows of about eighteen years of age.

One was a nephew of a Director of the Company, the other the son of a high Indian official.