I have had the luck to recapture two of them, myself; but when she is known to be at home we most of us keep in port, for she is a good deal more than a match for any craft that sails out from Saint Helier.
"She only went into Granville yesterday, and I thought that there was no fear of her being out again, for a week or so.

When I saw her, I took her for a smaller lugger that sails from that port, and which is no more than a match for us.

The fact is, we were looking at her chasing you, and wondering if we should be in time, instead of noticing her size.

It was not until she fired that first broadside that we found we had caught a tartar.

We should have run, if there had been a chance of getting away; but she is a wonderfully fast boat, and we knew that our only chance was to knock away one of her masts.
"And now, we will be making sail again.