I have given my promise, and I am not going to break it just to please you....

We have finished." Toni staggered as though he had just received a blow on the breast.

His eyes shone again, becoming moist.

After a long period of reflection, he held out his shaggy right hand to the captain.
"Good-by, Ulysses!..." He could not obey, and a sailor who takes disrespectful exception to the orders of his chief must leave the ship.

In no other boat could he ever live as in the _Mare Nostrum_.