The money was given us by our fathers to spend in Europe when we get there." "Mr.Lowington is to pay all our expenses on shore, by the terms of the contract.

Besides, the regulations of the Academy Ship, to which all the parents assented, require that the control of the boys shall be wholly given up to the principal.

It's a plain case, Shuffles." Mr.Lowington and his policy had an able and zealous defender in the person of Paul Kendall, who, by his arguments, as well as his influence, had already reconciled several of the students to the new regulation.
"If I were willing to grant the right of the principal to take the fellows' money from them--which I am not--I think it is treating them like babies to do so.

It is punishing the innocent with the guilty." "Mr.Lowington said, in so many words, that the measure was not intended as a punishment; that it was purely a matter of discipline, intended to meet certain evils which must appear when we landed in Europe, as well as to prevent gambling." Paul certainly had the best of the argument; but Shuffles was not convinced, because he did not wish to be convinced.
At eight bells, when the first part of the port watch went on duty, the wind had shifted from west to north; the studding-sails had been taken in, the spanker, main spencer, and all the staysails had been set, and the ship, close-hauled, was barely laying her course.

The wind was fresh, and she was heeled over on the starboard side, so that her decks formed a pretty steep inclined plane.