It is bad for him, I know, to be shut up as he is; but what can we do?
We cannot part." "No," said Anne, "that I can easily believe to be impossible; but in time, perhaps--we know what time does in every case of affliction, and you must remember, Captain Harville, that your friend may yet be called a young mourner--only last summer, I understand." "Ay, true enough," (with a deep sigh) "only June." "And not known to him, perhaps, so soon." "Not till the first week of August, when he came home from the Cape, just made into the Grappler.

I was at Plymouth dreading to hear of him; he sent in letters, but the Grappler was under orders for Portsmouth.

There the news must follow him, but who was to tell it?
not I.

I would as soon have been run up to the yard-arm.

Nobody could do it, but that good fellow" (pointing to Captain Wentworth.) "The Laconia had come into Plymouth the week before; no danger of her being sent to sea again.