It's fifteen years since I first picked him up, and I don't think I have ever had cause to find fault with him, since.
"So you see, though my establishment can't be called a genteel, it's a thoroughly good-working one, and I doubt if there's a man in the colony who is as well off as I am.
"When we go up country they all go with me except the sailor, who remains in charge.

He's a great man, I can tell you, when he's left in what he calls command of the ship.

He's got hold of two old muskets and a brace of pistols, and these he always loads before we start, so as to be ready to repel boarders.

He looks out sharply, too, for I have never lost a thing since he came; and when you consider what a number of gentry there are, about here, with experience in housebreaking, I think that's pretty well.

He is always drunk and incapable, for three or four days after our return, as a reward to himself for having kept from drink all the time we are away." "Dinner is ready," Frances Hudson said, running into the room.
"Here you are, papa, talking away as usual, whenever you get the chance.