The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.

Patrick OBrian
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  2. I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.

  3. I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.

  4. Well, I will wear the bees, like Damon and Pythagoras — ho, a mere sixty thousand bees in the cabin don't signify, much.

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