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'And pray, sir, what business have you to think? replied the first lieutenant, now very angry. 'Captain Plumbton, as this young gentleman thinks proper to interfere with me and the discipline of the ship, I beg you will see what effect your punishing may have upon him. 'Mr.
Mr Markitall, let me know when the foot of that foretopsail will be repaired I should like to shift it to-night." Mr Markitall went down under the half-deck to make the inquiry. "And, Edward," said Captain Plumbton, as soon as the lieutenant was out of ear-shot, "I have a good deal more to say to you upon this subject, but I have no time now.
"And pray, sir, what business have you to think?" replied the first-lieutenant, now very angry. "Captain Plumbton, as this young gentleman thinks proper to interfere with me and the discipline of the ship, I beg you will see what effect your punishing may have upon him."
The weather side of the quarter-deck of H.M. frigate Unicorn was occupied by two very great personages: Captain Plumbton, commanding the ship, who was very great in width if not in height, taking much more than his allowance of the deck, if it were not that he was the proprietor thereof, and entitled to the lion's share.
Markitall. This, with Captain Plumbton, was as much as to say, No. 'The young gentlemen, sir, I am sorry to say, are very troublesome. 'Boys always are, replied the captain. 'Yes, sir; but the duty must be carried on, and I cannot do without them. 'Very true midshipmen are very useful. 'But I'm sorry to say, sir, that they are not. Now, sir, there's Mr.
So Mr Templemore touched his hat, and stood before the captain, we regret to say, with such a good-humoured, sly, confiding smirk on his countenance, as at once established the proof of the accusation, and the enormity of the offence. "So, sir," said Captain Plumbton, stopping in his perambulation, and squaring his shoulders still more, "I find that you laugh at the first-lieutenant."
This, with Captain Plumbton, was as much as to say, No. "The young gentlemen, sir, I am sorry to say, are very troublesome." "Boys always are," replied the captain. "Yes sir: but the duty must be carried on, and I cannot do without them." "Very true midshipmen are very useful." "But I am sorry to say, sir, that they are not.
His features were sharp and lean as was his body, and wore every appearance of a cross-grained temper. He had been making divers complaints of divers persons, and the captain had hitherto appeared imperturbable. Captain Plumbton was an even-tempered man, who was satisfied with a good dinner. Lieutenant Markitall was an odd-tempered man, who would quarrel with his bread and butter.
The weather-side of the quarter-deck of H.M. frigate Unicorn was occupied by two very great personages: Captain Plumbton, commanding the ship, who was very great in width if not in height, taking much more than his allowance of the deck, if it were not that he was the proprietor thereof, and entitled to the lion's share.
His features were sharp and lean as was his body, and wore every appearance of a cross-grained temper. He had been making divers complaints of divers persons, and the captain had hitherto appeared imperturbable. Captain Plumbton was an even-tempered man, who was satisfied with a good dinner. Lieutenant Markitall was an odd-tempered man, who would quarrel with his bread and butter.
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