I first became acquainted acquaint with him on board a whale vessel ; finding find that he was unemployed in this city , I easily engaged engage him to assist in my enterprise .

You were wise in not having me come to look the place over before I engaged engage .

On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be -- as here they are -- mistily engaged engage in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause , tripping trip one another up on slippery precedents , groping grope knee-deep in technicalities , running run their goat-hair and horsehair warded heads against walls of words and making a pretence pretence of equity with serious faces , as players might .

For a moment they stood confronted confront ; then the moment placed place her : he had noticed notice her the day before , noticed notice her at his previous inn , where -- again in the hall -- she had been briefly engaged engage with some people of his own ship 's company .

She read read a letter from her sister , who was away in the East , and who had engaged engage herself to be married .