Admiral Bluewater and myself wish to confer together, for half an hour; all that it is proper for you to know, shall be communicated another time." "Good-night, and God bless your honour.

Good-night, Admiral Blue: we three is the men as can keep any secret as ever floated, let it draw as much water as it pleases." Sir Gervaise Oakes stopped in his walk, and gazed at his friend with manifest interest, as he perceived that Admiral Bluewater was running over his letter for the third time.

Being now without a witness, he did not hesitate to express his apprehensions.
"'Tis as I feared, Dick!" he cried.

"That letter is from some prominent partisan of Edward Stuart ?" The rear-admiral turned his eyes on the face of his friend, with an expression that was difficult to read; and then he ran over the contents of the epistle, for the fourth time.
"A set of precious rascals they are, Gervaise!" at length the rear-admiral exclaimed.

"If the whole court was culled, I question if enough honesty could be found to leaven one puritan scoundrel.