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Updated: May 25, 2025
You must try and cheer him up, or he'll die, as sure as I'm here." "Oh, I say, don't tell me that," I cried. "I don't like him, and I think he behaved horridly, but I don't want him to die." I hurried into my messmate's cabin, and found him lying there so ghastly and strange-looking that I shivered, and began to move on tip-toe.
Although the post-boy did not understand my messmate's language he did our gestures and the mention of the crown, and on we went at a great rate, turning up the dust as the gallant Doris was wont to do the brine, and making the stones fly in every direction. At last one of the postillions, who entered into our humour, proposed getting a horn for us.
A sailor can be trusted with the integrity of a messmate's honour or the resources of the mint, conceivably with the key of a brewery cellar, and justify the confidence reposed in him. But he cannot be trusted to be a corner-man, "gagging" with a black face and a pair of bones.
He has as a young officer hopelessly dishonoured himself. He can only be looked upon as a criminal." I could not argue with him, and relapsed into silence, thinking the while of the horror of my messmate's condition, and asking myself whether it would not have been possible for him to redeem the past, and grow up into a straightforward, honourable man.
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