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The exceptional man, who inspected at unaccustomed hours, which we considered our own prescriptive right though not by rules who came upon us unawares, was apt to be credited with rather unofficer-like ideas of what was becoming, and suspected of the not very gentlemanly practice of wearing noiseless rubber shoes.
One of them noticed the inexplicable disorder among a body of men some of whom resembled his own comrades. He had heard the firing, and was discussing it with others when this strange thing happened. He challenged. San Benavides answered, but his voice was shrill and unofficer-like. The engines were started. A man leaped to the wharf.
This was a manoeuvre which Admiral Zutman should not be warmly thanked for by their High Mightinesses; as he had it in his power to have done infinite mischief to our fleet, coming down in that unofficer-like manner.
Any resentful spirit, any long-continued dislike to the party with whom you once fought, would have been denounced as unofficer-like and ungenerous; and every day saw men walking arm-inarm in closest intimacy, who but the morning before stood opposed to each other's weapons. I now perceived the truth of what Minette had once said, and which at the time I but imperfectly comprehended.
How that might have been, Jacob said, he did not know all he knew was that his master was very ill, and that he returned to England soon afterwards. But still, argued I, if Lord Mowbray had not been brought to a court- martial, if it had been known among his brother officers that he had been guilty of such unofficer-like conduct, no British officer would have kept company with him.
Don't you know that it is unmilitary and unlike an officer to write news respecting one's post? You couldn't wish your husband to do an unofficer-like thing, could you?"
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