Said Lord Jocelyn to Captain Sorensen:
"I remember you, captain, very well indeed, but you have forgotten me. Were you not in command of the Sussex in the year of the Mutiny? Did you not take me out with the 120th?"
"To be sure—to be sure I did; and I remember your lordship very well, and am very glad to find you remember me. You were younger then."
"I was; and how goes it with you now, captain? Cheerfully as of old?"
"Ay, ay, my lord. I'm in the Trinity Almshouse, and my daughter is with Miss Kennedy, bless her! Therefore I've nothing to complain of."
"May I call upon you, some day, to talk over old times? You used to sing a good song in those days, and play a good tune, and dance a good dance."
"Come, my lord, as often as you like," he replied in great good-humor. "The cabin is small, but it's cozy, and the place is hard to get at."
"It is the queerest dinner I ever had, Harry," Lord Jocelyn whispered. "I like our old captain and his daughter. Is the hard-hearted dressmaker prettier than Nellie?"
"Prettier! why, there is no comparison possible."
"Yet Nelly hath a pleasing manner."