The tureen steamed on the table, they were in no danger, and healthy young appetite prevailed, for the soup was good even if the biscuits were flinty and hard.
As for the captain, it seemed absurd to associate him with smuggling or pistols, for he played the host in the most amiable manner when fish succeeded the soup; but as it was being discussed there were hurried sounds on deck.

Men were running to and fro; then came the peculiar dull, rasping sound of cables being hauled in through hawser holes, and a slight motion told that they were starting.
Vince ceased eating, and his eyes were involuntarily turned to the side, when the captain said laughingly,-- "It is nozing, my younger _ami_, and ze bulkhead side is not glass: you cannot see nozing.

You vant to know?
Vell, my sheep is in ze sharge of ze pilot, and ze men cast off.

If he take her out quite vell, sank you, ve sall soon be at sea.

If he make ze grand error he put my sheep on ze rock, vich make ze hole and you sall hear ze vater run in.