Memoirs of the Military and Political Life of Napoleon Bonaparte: From His Origin, to His Death on the Rock of St. Helena (1822)

Here the skipper put an end to the interview. He had evidently seen and had enough of the Boissons, husband and wife, and, ascending the companion-ladder at the same time as Garry and myself, I heard him muttering to himself as he went along and just caught the following words: To think–brave men–lose–valuable–save such–theirs–too dreadful. She frivolous–he–a–damned coward! laying a rather strong emphasis on the last words.