Shall I send for him, that we may put the question ?" "It is better that you remain passive, Admiral Bluewater.

I now promise you that you shall learn all I hear; and that, under the circumstances, I think ought to content you." The two admirals now separated, though neither returned to the company for some little time.

The intelligence they had just learned was too important to be lightly received, and each of these veteran seamen paced his room, for near a quarter of an hour, reflecting on what might be the probable consequences to the country and to himself.

Sir Gervaise Oakes expected some event of this nature, and was less taken by surprise than his friend; still he viewed the crisis as exceedingly serious, and as one likely to destroy the prosperity of the nation, as well as the peace of families.

There was then in England, as there is to-day, and as there probably will be throughout all time, two parties; one of which clung to the past with its hereditary and exclusive privileges, while the other looked more towards change for anticipated advantages, and created honours.