"I am sorry to say you have proved that you are. You called one of them a puppy."
"But not until—"
"Excuse me, Mr. Hamblin. I do not purpose to discuss this matter again."
"May I ask if you sustain Mr. Kendall in his conduct towards me?"
"I do—fully."
"I am astonished, sir!"
"So am I—astonished that a gentleman of your learning and ability should so demean himself as to apply offensive epithets to his pupils. In the first place, you had no right to interfere with the discipline of the vessel; and when Captain Kendall told you that he commanded the Josephine, he said no more than the truth, and no more than the circumstances required him to say. In the second place, after you called him a puppy, and repeated the epithet, on the quarter-deck, I could not have blamed him if he had put you in irons. I approve his conduct fully. As you insulted him before his officers and crew, it was necessary that he should vindicate himself before them."
"I am afraid this vessel is no place for me," said the professor, with extreme disgust.
"I am afraid not, if you cannot observe the rules of the ship."
"I think I have observed the rules, sir. Mr. Kendall used every means in his power to annoy me; and still you sustain him in it. He knows that you are partial to him."