human
Well, I'm so glad, Duff, that you have joined us, exclaimed the one who appeared to be somewhat the eldest.
gpt
Who'd have thought it, when we parted four years ago at old Railton's that we were next to meet out here. I didn't think you would have got leave to enter the service.
human
Neither did I expect to get afloat, and still less to become your messmate, when you, lucky dog that I thought you, left school. I moped on there for nearly another year, and then wrote to my governor and told him that if he didn't let me go to sea I should never be fit for anything. At last he believed that I was in earnest, and with a light heart I turned my back upon Brook-green, and shipped on board the old _Rodney_. But, I say, old fellow, what sort of a chap is our skipper? He looks like a taut hand.