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13723

True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump from spar to spar, like a grasshopper in a May meadow.

 

13724

 

13725

And at first, this sort of thing is unpleasant enough.

 

13726

 

13727

It touches one’s sense of honor, particularly if you come of an old established family in the land, the Van Rensselaers, or Randolphs, or Hardicanutes.

 

13728

 

13729

And more than all, if just previous to putting your hand into the tar-pot, you have been lording it as a country schoolmaster, making the tallest boys stand in awe of you.

 

13730

 

13731

The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.

 

13732

 

13733

But even this wears off in time.

 

13734

 

13735
What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks?

 

13736

What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament?

 

13737

 

13738

Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks anything the less of me, because I promptly and respectfully obey that old hunks in that particular instance?

 

13739

 

13740

Who ain’t a slave?

 

13741

 

13742

Tell me that.