GRUMBLING AND GROWLING While these successful runs went on, and great authorities smiled at seeing the little authorities set at naught, and men of the revenue smote their breasts for not being born good smugglers, and the general public was well pleased, and congratulated them cordially upon their accomplishment of naught, one man there was whose noble spirit chafed and knew no comfort.

He strode up and down at Coast-guard Point, and communed with himself, while Robin held sweet converse in the lane.
"Why was I born ?" the sad Carroway cried; "why was I thoroughly educated and trained in both services of the king, expected to rise, and beginning to rise, till a vile bit of splinter stopped me, and then sent down to this hole of a place to starve, and be laughed at, and baffled by a boy?
Another lucky run, and the revenue bamboozled, and the whole of us sent upon a wild-goose chase! Every gapper-mouth zany grinning at me, and scoundrels swearing that I get my share! And the only time I have had my dinner with my knees crook'd, for at least a fortnight, was at Anerley Farm on Sunday.

I am not sure that even they wouldn't turn against me; I am certain that pretty girl would.

I've a great mind to throw it up--a great mind to throw it up.

It is hardly the work for a gentleman born, and the grandson of a rear-admiral.