It is a worse thing than any gale that ever blew; begins fair enough, sometimes; but how does it end?
In breaking into the spirit-room and drinking to madness, plundering the ship, ravishing the women, and cutting a throat or so for certain.

You don't seem so fond of the picture as you was of the idea.

And then they might turn a deaf ear to you after all.

Ship is well found in all stores; provisions served out freely; men in good humor; and I have got their ear.

And now I'll tell you why it won't suit your little game to blacken me to the crew, upon the bare chance of a mutiny." He paused for a moment, then resumed in a lower tone, and revealed himself the extraordinary man he was.
"You see, sir," said he, "when a man is very ready to suspect me, I always suspect him.