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"Confound the boatswain's whistle!" growled Shuffles. "I don't like the idea of running every time he pipes." Very much to the surprise of his companions, Shuffles, his irritation increased by the conduct of Wilton, took no notice of the call, and went forward, instead of aft. His companions, more wise and prudent, walked up to the hatch, which Mr. Lowington had just mounted.
He told me all about it," continued Wilton, desperately, when he found that the principal was in no mood to listen to his backbiting. "That will do, Wilton? I don't wish to hear anything more about that matter. Your testimony against Shuffles, under present circumstances, is not worth the breath you use in uttering it."
"I am told you wish to see me, Shuffles," said the principal. "Yes, sir; I wish to say that I am extremely sorry for what I have done." "I thought you were crazy when you refused to obey; and now I find you were." "I had been drinking, sir, I confess." "Mr. Agneau has told me your story; it is not necessary to repeat it now.
In a short time the students began to come out of their rooms, clothed in their new rig. They looked intensely "salt," and there was no end to the jokes and smart things that were said on this interesting occasion. Even Shuffles hardly knew himself in his new dress. The frock had a broad rolling collar, in each corner of which was worked an anchor in white.
"'Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup, at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder," continued the chaplain, as he passed out of the lock-up. Mr. Agneau went to the prisoner's berth, and found the two bottles of wine. They were a sufficient explanation of the remarkable conduct of Shuffles.
"Let me give you a little law, then," persisted Paul. "How old are you, Shuffles?" "Eighteen." "Good! You are an infant." "In law, I am." "Suppose your uncle, or somebody else, should die to-day, and leave you fifty thousand dollars: wouldn't you have a good time with it?" "I should, as soon as I got hold of it, you had better believe," replied Shuffles.
The proprietress suddenly arises, shuffles in her slippers to the door, and says, winking to the inspector with a sleepy, expressionless eye of faded blue: "Mr. Kerbesh, I would ask you to have a look at our alterations. We want to enlarge the place a bit." "A-ah! With pleasure..." After ten minutes both return, without looking at each other.
For Aminta had not offended, his robust observation of her was moved to the kindly humorous by a reflective view here and there of the downright woman her clever little shuffles exposed her to be, not worse. It was her sex that made her one of the gliders in grasses, some of whom are venomous; but she belonged to the order only as an innocuous blindworm.
As the steamer was running nearly against the wind, her headway was easily checked by a turn or two of the wheels backward; though the boat bumped pretty hard against the steamer once or twice. Shuffles evidently believed that skilful management alone could save the sail-boat, and the lives of those who were in her. His mission, as he understood it, was to supply this needed skill.
Don't call it by that name." "What shall I call it?" "Call it making a chain." "I don't understand you," answered Wilton, puzzled by the expression. "I know what I'm about, and I have got more friends in the ship than Lowington has. And I know exactly how to manage the whole thing," added Shuffles, confidently. "But the fellows are all perfectly satisfied with their condition.
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