"Why, yes, certainly, if you like, Mr Grenvile," answered the captain good-naturedly.  "The fellow is rather a good man, I believe, and he appears to have taken a particularly strong fancy to you.  By the way, there is one thing that I omitted to mention, Mr Grenvile, and that is that you will have to be your own navigator should you and the brig by any chance part company, for Mr Freeman will accompany Mr Fawcett in the brig.  But the master tells me that you are a very reliable navigator; you therefore ought not to have any difficulty upon that score.  And now you had better run away and turn yourself over to your three-decker."