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"No, sir, I do not," retorted the captain, with offended dignity. "Mr Simple, will you take a glass of wine?" I thought that this little brouillerie would have checked the captain; it did so, but only for a few minutes, when he again commenced. The first lieutenant observed that it would be necessary to let water into the ship every morning, and pump it out, to avoid the smell of the bilge-water.
Therein, in all probability, lay a new stumbling block against which the conjugal harmony jarred, already shaken as it was by all the dissemblances of habit, appreciation, and of taste, which difference of nationality engendered. "Ce ménage ne fut pas concordant," says Saint-Simon; "quoique sans brouillerie ouverte, et les époux furent quelquefois bien aises de se séparer."
"No, sir, I do not," retorted the captain, with offended dignity. "Mr Simple, will you take a glass of wine?" I thought that this little brouillerie would have checked the captain; it did so, but only for a few minutes, when he again commenced. The first lieutenant observed that it would be necessary to let water into the ship every morning, and pump it out, to avoid the smell of the bilge water.
I dare say that in the main there is no great difference between us. You wish for all the good things you can get; and so do I. One of us may take a more round about way to obtain them than the other: but we both intend to travel to the same goal. I own, when I heard of your brouillerie with my friend Idford, I thought you had missed the road.
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