Charles Dickens Captains Quotations

"Would you, do you, my dear?" rejoined the Captain ... "I don't know. It's difficult navigation. She's very hard to carry on with, my dear. You never can tell how she'll head, you see. She's full one minute, and round upon you next."

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.