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Blakeley sailed boldly in, and, evading the three-decker's movements, actually cut out and captured one of the transports and made his escape. Then she sailed for home, and that was the last ever heard of the Wasp. She never again appeared, and her fate has never been determined.
The MAJESTIC, Captain Westcott, got entangled with the main rigging of one of the French ships astern of the ORIENT, and suffered dreadfully from that three-decker's fire; but she swung clear, and closely engaging the HEUREUX, the ninth ship on the starboard bow, received also the fire of the TONNANT, which was the eighth in the line.
Only, I'm afraid your three-decker's apprenticeship 'll stand in your way. 'Greek 's to be done for me; I can pay clever gentlemen for doing Greek for me, said the captain. 'The knowledge and the love of virtue I must do for myself; and not to be wrecked, I must do it early. 'Well, that's neither learning nor human nature, said I.
Twice or thrice during that long and wretched vigil there seemed a promise of the weather clearing, and I gazed with the yearning of the shipwrecked; but regularly it thickened and blackened down upon us again in blasts like the belchings of a three-decker's broadside. It was a very watery vapour, and I was early wet to the skin.
Only, I'm afraid your three-decker's apprenticeship 'll stand in your way. 'Greek 's to be done for me; I can pay clever gentlemen for doing Greek for me, said the captain. 'The knowledge and the love of virtue I must do for myself; and not to be wrecked, I must do it early. 'Well, that's neither learning nor human nature, said I.
He would give himself all the airs of an admiral on a three-decker's poop; and no doubt, thought quite as much of himself. And why not? What could Caesar want more?
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