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`` I see that , whatever else we may have to teach you , it will not be how to use your weapons . Indeed , it seems to me that you are getting on very fast . I saw you go up the shrouds to-day , and I can see that you will very soon be as much at home there as any of my midshipmen . And now , gentlemen , we have had rather a long sitting , for it is nearly ten o'clock ; but I am sure that you must have been as interested as I have been myself , in the information Mr. Blagrove has been good enough to give us . '' `` By Jove , Blagrove , '' Wilkinson said when they had left the cabin , `` if you had told me all this before I should not have felt so doubtful about your fight with Condor . So you can really use your fists well ? '' `` I learnt for over two years from some of the best light-weights in London , '' Edgar replied , `` and unless he has had wonderfully good teachers I ought to have no trouble about the matter . ''