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I don't believe any fellow makes anything by being a hypocrite, and selling out his friends." "I don't think so, either. But you certainly cannot mean to say that Captain Shuffles is a hypocrite, or that he ever betrayed his friends?" "I suppose I ought not to say anything to you about it, knowing that he is a strong friend of yours." "Whatever you say, Mr. Perth, shall not be repeated.
You are going to seek a situation as a hall porter or waiter, but I can see that you ought to be a soldier in the army, because you are no fool, are patient and understand discipline. Life shuffles us like cards, you see, and it is only accidentally, and only for a time, that we fall into our own places!"
"But I must come in for the title and the estate when the old boy, my cousin, 'shuffles off this mortal coil, and in the meantime the governor stands to me decently enough, and I'm pretty jolly all round." "Tell us about Stephen Gower," says Dulce, after a pause, "He interests me, I don't know why. What is he like?" "He is 'A greenery yallery Grosvenor gallery Foot-in-the-grave young man."
"Whenever you are ready, I am," replied Pelham. "I am ready now." "So am I." "Very well; it shall come off to-morrow, say." "To-morrow it is, then." "But how shall it be conducted?" asked Shuffles. "That will not be an easy matter. I think, however we can hit upon some plan for having it fairly done." "Of course the matter lies between you and me," added Shuffles. "To be sure."
"Don't be alarmed, miss," said Shuffles, as he seized a kind of tub which was filled with fish-lines and other angling gear. "What shall I do?" asked the young man, whose pluck had by this time become quite exhausted in his vain battle with the elements. "Can you pull an oar?" demanded Shuffles, rather sharply, of the clumsy boatman. "I can." "Take this one, then, and keep her head as it is now."
"What of it?" asked Shuffles, innocently. "Don't you think he would veto you?" "Me! Not he! Lowington knows that I'm smart; I was too smart for him once, and he knows it. He won't veto me. We have been the best of friends lately." "I don't believe he'll have a chance to veto you," said Wilton. "What do you mean?" "I don't believe you will be elected." "I know I shall, if we manage it right.
"But we want to go ashore with the other fellows, or we shall have no chance to go anywhere." "Shut up! Don't talk about that here. If we don't go, no one will go. This is bully! We shall get things mixed so that the officers won't know a lamb from a goat." "Bob Shuffles hasn't made much yet as captain," laughed Spencer.
"O, the principal only wanted to break us up by taking our best fellow away from us. He couldn't drive Tom Perth, and now he's going to lead him bait him with sugar and offices." "Some of the fellows say Shuffles can't handle the ship without the help of the principal," said Spencer. "Of course he can't!" exclaimed Howe. "Hasn't he proved that already?
"Those in favor of Grand Protectress say, ay," continued Haven. "Ay!" responded a large number. "Opposed." "No." "The ayes have it. Grand Protectress it is." "I move you that Commodore Kendall and Captain Shuffles be a committee to wait upon Miss Arbuckle, and inform her that she has been unanimously chosen Grand Protectress of the Order of the Faithful. Those in favor say, ay; those opposed, no.
"If this state of thing is caused by any dislike to me, sir, I am willing to resign." "So far as I know, you have done your duty, Shuffles; and to permit you to resign would be to abandon the plan of the Academy Ship, and acknowledge that discipline is an impracticable thing. You cannot resign." "Many of the fellows dislike me," added the captain.
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