"From what Jimmy Dumble's brother told him, he seems to have taken you in entirely the wrong direction, and on the wrong tide." "We had a small catch," Lessingham replied.

"I really went more for the sail than the sport, so I was not disappointed." "The coast itself," Sir Henry remarked, "is rather an interesting one." "I should imagine so," Lessingham assented.

"Mr.Ben Oates, indeed, told me some wonderful stories about it.

He spoke of broad channels down which a dreadnought could approach within a hundred yards of the land." "He is quite right, too," his host agreed.
"There's a lot of deep water about here.

The whole of the coast is very curious in that way.