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"Hang his insolence!" muttered the middy; and as Tom lowered himself from the post and then went, rock-hopper fashion, down the steps and boarded the boat, the young officer gave Aleck a supercilious stare up and down, taking in his rough every-day clothes and swelling himself out a little in his smart blue well-fitting uniform.
This latter was emptied, and then the couple began to ascend the gap towards the opening into the sunk garden. Tom stopped after getting over the stones like the rock-hopper penguin. "I'll slip off now, Master Aleck, case the captain may be out in the garden," whispered the sailor. "Yes, you'd better go now, Tom. Do I look so very bad?" "Tidy, sir, tidy; but don't you mind that.
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