"There's many a man here, Rodney," continued my father, as he glanced about him, "whose name may never find its way into any book save his own ship's log, but who in his own way has set as fine an example as any admiral of them all.
«Il y a ici, Rodney, reprit mon père, en jetant les yeux autour de lui, plus d'un homme dont le nom n'ira jamais plus loin que le livre de loch de son navire et qui, dans sa sphère, ne s'est pas montré moins digne qu'un amiral d'être cité en exemple.