Master Philip is with Bentley, and I would trust the prudence and courage and skill of that man in any situation.

You know my father, who was a shipmaster, when he died aboard his ship in the China seas, gave me, a little boy taking a cruise with him, into Bentley's charge, and told him to make a sailor and a man of me, and from that day he has never left me.

At my house, in Philadelphia, he is a privileged character.

There never was a truer, better, braver man; and as for patriotism, love of country is a passion with him, colonel.

He might set an example to many in higher station in that particular." "Yes, I have noticed that peculiarity about the man.