"You may think that I have exaggerated, for did an Irishman ever tell a story, without exaggeration?
But I give you my honour that never did one keep nearer to the truth than I have done.

I don't say that the fisherman's wife took quite such a strong fancy to me as I have stated, although she can hardly have been insensible to my personal advantages; but really, otherwise, I don't know that I have diverged far from the narrow path of truth.

I tell you, those two days that we were running before that gale was a thing I never wish to go through again." "And you really tied up the Maire of Granville, Ryan ?" "We did so," Dicky said, "and a miserable object the poor little fat man looked, as he sat in his chair trussed up like a fowl." "And now, about the sea fight, Ryan ?" "Every word was as it happened.

O'Connor and I turned gunners, and very decent shots we made, too; and a proof of it was that, if we would have taken it, I believe the captain of the schooner would have given us half the booty found in the lugger's hold; but we were modest and self denying, and contented ourselves with a third, each, of the cash found in the captain's cabin; which we could not have refused if we wanted to, the captain made such a point of it.
It came to nearly three hundred pounds apiece; and mighty useful it was, for we had, of course, to get new uniforms and rigs out, and horses and saddlery at Lisbon.

I don't know what I should have done without it, for my family's finances would not have stood my drawing upon them; and another mortgage would have ruined them, entirely." "Well, certainly, that is a substantial proof of the truth of that incident in your story; but I think that, rather than have passed forty-eight hours in that storm, I would have stopped at Bayonne and taken my chance of exchange." "Then I am afraid, Forester, that you are deficient in martial ardour," Terence said gravely.