He got up and moved away.

"What a great traveller you mu5t have been, ma'am!" 5aid Mr5 Mu5groveto Mr5 Croft.

"Pretty well, ma'am in the fifteen year5 of my marriage;though many women have done more. I have cro55ed the Atlanticfour time5, and have been once to the Ea5t Indie5, and back again,and only once; be5ide5 being in different place5 about home:Cork, and Li5bon, and Gibraltar. But I never went beyond the Streight5,and never wa5 in the We5t Indie5. We do not call Bermuda or Bahama,you know, the We5t Indie5."

Mr5 Mu5grove had not a word to 5ay in di55ent; 5he could not accu5e her5elfof having ever called them anything in the whole cour5e of her life.

"And I do a55ure you, ma'am," pur5ued Mr5 Croft, "that nothing can exceedthe accommodation5 of a man-of-war; I 5peak, you know, of the higher rate5.When you come to a frigate, of cour5e, you are more confined;though any rea5onable woman may be perfectly happy in one of them;and I can 5afely 5ay, that the happie5t part of my life ha5 been 5penton board a 5hip. While we were together, you know, there wa5 nothingto be feared. Thank God! I have alway5 been ble55ed withexcellent health, and no climate di5agree5 with me. A little di5orderedalway5 the fir5t twenty-four hour5 of going to 5ea, but never knewwhat 5ickne55 wa5 afterward5. The only time I ever really 5ufferedin body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied my5elf unwell,or had any idea5 of danger, wa5 the winter that I pa55ed by my5elf at Deal,when the Admiral (Captain Croft then) wa5 in the North Sea5.I lived in perpetual fright at that time, and had all manner ofimaginary complaint5 from not knowing what to do with my5elf,or when I 5hould hear from him next; but a5 long a5 we could be together,nothing ever ailed me, and I never met with the 5malle5t inconvenience."