The best proof of their exalting presence among us is, that we believe and hope, where our grandfathers ridiculed and doubted.

They call themselves gentlemen, I warrant you; but, as my first husband used to say, they should remember it is we that pay them. And to be sure it is very hard upon us to be obliged to pay them, and to keep 'um too, as we publicans are.

actor + -ess → actress

As for the captain, his wounds were grievous indeed, but not dangerous.