After declaring my resolution with respect to the ship unalterable, I was proceeding to withdraw, in compliance with a sign from the consul, when the stranger turned round to him, saying, "Wait a minute, if you please, Mr.Wilson; let me talk to that youth.

Come here, my young friend: I'm extremely sorry to see you associated with these bad men; do you know what it will end in ?" "Oh, that's the lad that wrote the Round Robin," interposed the consul.

"He and that rascally doctor are at the bottom of the whole affair--go outside, sir." I retired as from the presence of royalty; backing out with many bows.
The evident prejudice of Wilson against both the doctor and myself was by no means inexplicable.

A man of any education before the mast is always looked upon with dislike by his captain; and, never mind how peaceable he may be, should any disturbance arise, from his intellectual superiority, he is deemed to exert an underhand influence against the officers.
Little as I had seen of Captain Guy, the few glances cast upon me after being on board a week or so were sufficient to reveal his enmity--a feeling quickened by my undisguised companionship with Long Ghost, whom he both feared and cordially hated.

Guy's relations with the consul readily explains the latter's hostility.
The examination over, Wilson and his friends advanced to the doorway; when the former, assuming a severe expression, pronounced our perverseness infatuation in the extreme.