p. 106 - Jack assures Stephen he would happily 'proceed to the smallest of commands, to His Majesty's sloop-of-war Mosquito, say, with two four-pounders and a swivel, and to hoist my flag at her mizzen-mast. I should do anything for it. Anything.'
'Does Simmon's Lea come within the limits of anything?'
'No, of course not, Stephen; how can you be so strange?'
'It is an elastic term, you know.'
— Aug 17, 2020 03:51PM
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