In the two years following Midway, Japanese shipyards managed to splash only six additional fleet carriers. The United States in the same period added seventeen, along with ten medium carriers and eighty-six escort carriers.

a scornful curling of the lip

[…] Then I Bad flay the Victims, and their bodies burn, And ſay their Pray'rs to Pluto and his Queen.

Crossing the Park on the line to Diana’s house he met Miss Paynham, who grieved to say that Mrs. Warwick could not give her a sitting; and, in a still mournfuller tone, imagined he would find her at home, and alone by this time.