So you could n't run a boat, hey! Not so easy as it looked, was it, you dog.

Thought we 'd be gone this morning, didn't you?
You 'll find I 'm not quite as easy as all that.

Now, by God! you 'll take your medicine!" I still stood motionless, my back to the rail, letting him rave, but watching every movement.

I knew the girl's eyes were on my face, although I did not venture to glance toward her, not even when the negro guided her aft through the ring of seamen.

Yet this was the one thing I was waiting for, my heart beating fiercely, in fear lest the Lieutenant might give signal for attack too soon.