Therefore it appears, to me, to be flying in the face of Providence to try to keep you on shore.

Had your poor mother lived, it would have been a different thing.

Her mind was set upon your becoming a clerk; but there, one might as well try to make a silk purse from the ear of a sow.

But I tell you again, count not too much upon this promise.

It may be years before Mr.Francis Drake may be in a position to keep it." Had Ned Hearne watched for Captain Drake's second voyage, he would, indeed, as his father had said, have waited long.