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It was your right and your duty to save your own vessel, if you could, without doing anything dishonourable; and I see nothing wrong in your conduct. But it's a sad disgrace to us, to let these French rascals be picking up their crumbs in this fashion, right under our hawse-holes."
The service had received serious injury by admitting men on the quarter-deck from before the mast; it occasioned there being two classes of officers in the navy namely, those who had rank and connections, and those who had entered by the "hawse-holes," as they were described.
The sails were loosed from their gaskets, and the sounds of the drum and fifes struck up as the capstans were manned, the soldiers lending a hand at the bars, and the chains came clanking in at the hawse-holes. "There is a vessel coming in round the point," O'Connor said. "But we shall hardly get the last news; we shall be under way before she anchors."
The old ship herself longs to look out upon the land from her hawse-holes once more, and Jack Lewis said right the other day when the captain found fault with his steering. 'Why d'ye see, Captain Vangs, says bold Jack, 'I'm as good a helmsman as ever put hand to spoke; but none of us can steer the old lady now.
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