You would scarcely confide so important a trust, in such a crisis, to a man of my political feelings--I will not say _opinions_; since you attribute all to sentiment." "I would confide my life and honour to you, Richard Bluewater, with the utmost confidence in the security of both, so long as it depended on your own acts or inclinations.

We must first see, however, what news the Active brings us; for, if de Vervillin is really out, I shall assume that the duty of an English sailor is to beat a Frenchman, before all other considerations." "If he _can_," drily observed the other, raising his right leg so high as to place the foot on the top of an old-fashioned chair; an effort that nearly brought his back in a horizontal line.
"I am far from regarding it as a matter of course, Admiral Bluewater; but, it _has_ been done sufficiently often, to render it an event of no very violent _possibility_.

Ah, here is Magrath to tell us the condition of his patient." The surgeon of the Plantagenet entering the room, at that moment, the conversation was instantly changed.
"Well, Magrath," said Sir Gervaise, stopping suddenly in his quarter-deck pace; "what news of the poor man ?" "He is reviving, Admiral Oakes," returned the phlegmatic surgeon; "but it is like the gleaming of sunshine that streams through clouds, as the great luminary sets behind the hills--" "Oh! hang your poetry, doctor; let us have nothing but plain matter-of-fact, this morning." "Well, then, Sir Gervaise, as commander-in-chief, you'll be obeyed, I think.

Sir Wycherly Wychecombe is suffering under an attack of apoplexy--or [Greek: apoplexis], as the Greeks had it.

The diagnosis of the disease is not easily mistaken, though it has its affinities as well as other maladies.