This was a favourable circumstance in one respect to myself and the ship's company, for as Tuesday is a sumptuous day in point of allowance in the navy, beef and pudding being the prescribed fare for dinner, we by this accident feasted two days together; whereas had it occurred on a Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, two successive banyan (or starvation) days would have been our dismal portion.

Far to the right, where the main pile sloped out, his cart reared tongue upward, like a plow.

A big red-faced man next to Jeremy was crying over and over again: That'll teach him to meddle with our women. That'll teach him to meddle with our women.

None the less there is no trace of childish depredations in the grounds or buildings: lawns are green and untrampled, though open and free to everyone; walls are unscrawled; the place is as beautifully kept as a private estate.