"O' course you do; you've got the salt in your blood, but this peaceful cruising is beginning to tell on you.

Donald liked this slow cruising and the market-work best; but the picnic parties were profitable, and he took them whenever he could.

After a hundred and four days' useless cruising in the Channel, the huge fleet returned sorrowfully to Brest; Admiral d'Orvilliers had lost his son in a partial engagement; he left the navy and retired ere long to a convent.