" "I have no cartridgesas you have observed," said I. "There's plenty aboard," he suggested.

This would have been done as soon after the ladies had left as possible, and there would then have been plenty of time for Lloyd to hurry out and meet them before darkespecially plenty of time to meet them coming back, as they must have been, since they were carrying their ferns.

"Plenty to eat 'ere, sir, and nobody to be crule to yer, and nice little lessons for an hour in the afternoon!

French frigates are tolerably plenty, they tell me, and this Lord Harry Dermond, much as he loves sugar and coffee, would like to fall in with a la Vigilante, or a la Diane, of equal force, far better.