I proposed that it should be done at my expense.

They praised their captain, but asked us, as gentlemen and scholars, whether it was reasonable to object to liquor because your brother was carried out on a high tide?
Mr.Double commended them to moderation.

Their reply was to estimate an immoderate amount of liquor as due to them, with profound composure.
'Those rascals,' Mr.Double informed us, 'are not in the captain's confidence they're tidy seamen, though, and they submit to the captain's laws on board and have their liberty ashore.' We inquired what the difference was between their privileges and his.
'Why,' said he, 'if they're so much as accused of a disobedient act, off they 're scurried, and lose fair wages and a kind captain.

And let any man Jack of 'em accuse me, and he bounds a india-rubber ball against a wall and gets it; all he meant to give he gets.

Once you fix the confidence of your superior, you're waterproof.' We held our peace, but we could have spoken.
Mr.Double had no moral hostility toward theatres.