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I order you immediately to return the three guineas which you received as mess-money, and also that your wife give back the stockings which she cajoled him out of." But then I interposed, and told the first lieutenant that the stockings had been a free gift on my part; and that although I had been very foolish, yet that I considered that I could not in honour demand them back again.
Scopas was greedy of money; nothing would satisfy his avarice. The other Greek generals of his rank received while in the Egyptian service a mina, or ten dollars a day, under the name of mess-money, beyond the usual military pay; and Scopas claimed and received for his services the large sum of ten minas, or one hundred and twenty-five dollars, a day for mess-money.
I order you immediately to return the three guineas which you received as mess-money, and also that your wife give back the stockings which she cajoled him out of." But then I interposed, and told the first lieutenant that the stockings had been a free gift on my part and that, although I had been very foolish, yet that I considered that I could not in honour demand them back again.
Newton immediately repaired on board of the frigate, to ascertain if the officers would receive him as a messmate; and further, whether the amount of his mess-money would be more than he could in prudence afford. He was, therefore, naturally anxious not to expend more than was absolutely necessary in defraying his passage.
"Gentlemen, we have paid our mess-money, and we have nothing to eat. We have asked for the accounts, and we are put off with `indisposition. Now, gentlemen, as there can be no doubt of the caterer's honour, I propose that we give him a receipt in full." "And here's a pen to write it with," cried out another, holding up the sleeve-board, with which they had been playing the game.
Newton immediately repaired on board of the frigate, to ascertain if the officers would receive him as a messmate; and further, whether the amount of his mess-money would be more than he could in prudence afford. He was therefore naturally anxious not to expend more than was absolutely necessary in defraying his passage.
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