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I tried, therefore, to relieve his mind on that point. "You know, Herbert, that I shall have to associate chiefly with Mr Henley and the third mate, Mr Waller, who seems a quiet sort of young man, while there appears to be no harm in my two fellow-midshipmen, Sills and Broom, though they certainly do not look very bright geniuses.
"I also commend him: but the crowd of his fellow-midshipmen found it against the custom of the service and gave him the strap for it. This, however, raised him up a champion in one of the taller lads, who protested that their conduct was tyrannous: 'and, said he, very generously, 'to-morrow night I too propose to say my prayers. If any one object, he may fight me."
We were on deck again, and luckily out of hearing of our fellow-midshipmen, when these two menials came up to report themselves: and Hartnoll and I had just arrived at an amicable choice between them. "Here, Bill," said the foremost, advancing and pointing at me with a forefinger, "which'll it be? If you don't mind, I'll take the red-headed one, to put me in mind o' my gal."
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