I dare say, he has a good L12,000 a year, and nothing but a nephew to inherit it all.

I'm determined to do as I please with my money.

I made every shilling of it, and I'll give it to whom I please." The whole time, Admiral Bluewater lay with his eyes shut, and with a tongue as motionless as if it couldn't stir.

With all his _laissez aller_ manner, however, he had the promptitude of a sailor, when his mind was made up to do a thing, though he always performed it in his own peculiar mode.

To rise, dress, and prepare to quit his state-room, occupied him but a short time; and he was seated before his own writing-desk, in the after-cabin, within twenty minutes after the thoughts just recorded, had passed through his mind.