I shall feel very hurt if you will not do so." "I thank you, Captain," Terence said, "and will not refuse your offer.

We shall have to provide ourselves with new uniforms, and take a passage out to Portugal, which is where our regiments are, at present; so the money will be very useful." "And I see you have not a watch, monsieur.

You had better take one of these." "Thanks! I parted with mine to a good woman, who helped me to escape from Bayonne; so I will accept that offer, also." In two hours the schooner entered the port of Saint Helier; the lugger, under easy sail, following in her wake.

They were greeted with enthusiastic cheers by the crowd that gathered on the quays, as soon as it was seen that the prize was the dreaded Annette--which had, for some months past, been a terror to the privateers and fishermen of the place--and that she should have been captured by the Cerf seemed marvellous, indeed.
A British officer was on the quay when they got alongside.

He came on board at once.
"The governor has sent me to congratulate you, in his name, Captain Teniers," he said, "on having captured a vessel double your own size, which has for some time been the terror of these waters.