"Well spoken, like a true son of the Ocean!" exclaimed Neptune, patting me on the back.  "For that same notion you are free from henceforth and for ever of my watery realms; seeing also as how you have been lathered and shaved and crossed the line.  So here are three cheers for Mr Harry Hopeton; and may he live to sail round the world, and to command as fine a ship as this here craft--and finer, too!"