The four boys at the wheel handled it with perfect ease.
The ship did not labor in the gale as she had before the sails were reefed; and though she jumped, plunged, and rolled, making a terrific roar as she went along, everything was ship-shape about her, and the boys soon became accustomed to the exciting scene.

She was making but little headway, but she still kept within three points of her general course.

Mr.Lowington remained on deck the rest of the night, anxiously watching the ship and her crew in the trying experience of the hour.
Augustus Pelham, the discontented lieutenant, went below when his quarter watch was relieved.

The little incident, before all hands were called, between himself and the captain, had disturbed him more than he would have been willing to acknowledge.

He thought it was harsh of the captain to say anything to him, though he had broken one of the rules of the ship; and he regarded the gentle reproof he had received as a very great indignity.
He went to his state room.