time before eight tomorrow morning, you will let me know your further
commands.--And was going to tell me where he might be found.

Captain Tomlinson, said I, you answer well. I love a man of spirit.
Have you not been in the army?

I have, Sir; but have turned my sword into a ploughshare, as the
scripture has it,--[there was a clever fellow, Jack!--he was a good man
with somebody, I warrant! O what a fine coat and cloke for an hypocrite
will a text of scripture, properly applied, make at any time in the eyes
of the pious!--how easily are the good folks taken in!]--and all my
delight, added he, for some years past, has been in cultivating my
paternal estate. I love a brave man, Mr. Lovelace, as well as ever I did
in my life. But let me tell you, Sir, that when you come to my time of
life, you will be of opinion, that there is not so much true bravery in
youthful choler, as you may now think there is.

A clever fellow again, Belford!--Ear and heart, both at once, he took in
my charmer!--'Tis well, she says, there are some men who have wisdom in
their anger.

Well, Captain, that is reproof for reproof. So we are upon a footing.
And now give me the pleasure of hearing the import of your commission.

Sir, you must first allow me to repeat my question: Are you really, and
bonâ fide, married to Miss Clarissa Harlowe? or are you not yet married?

Bluntly put, Captain. But if I answer that I am, what then?

Why then, Sir, I shall say, that you are a man of honour.