So far from complaining of these Hanoverian Boards, and First Lords, it seems to me that they have always kept in view the hollowness of their claims to the throne, and have felt a desire to purchase honest men by their favours." "You are the strangest fellow, Dick Bluewater, it has ever been my lot to fall in with! D----e me, if I believe you know always, when you _are_ ill treated.

There are a dozen men in service, who have had separate commands, and who are not half as well entitled to them, as you are yourself." "Come, come, Oakes, this is getting to be puerile, for two old fellows, turned of fifty.

You very well know that I was offered just as good a fleet, as this of your own, with a choice of the whole list of flag-officers below me, to pick a junior from; and, so, we'll say no more about it.

As respects their red riband, however, it may go a-begging for me." Sir Gervaise was about to answer in his former vein, when a tap at the door announced the presence of another visiter.

This time the door opened on the person of Galleygo, who had been included in Sir Wycherly's hospitable plan of entertaining every soul who immediately belonged to the suite of Sir Gervaise.
"What the d----l has brought _you_ here!" exclaimed the vice-admiral, a little warmly; for he did not relish an interruption just at this moment.