[The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe Three Clerks CHAPTER IV 5/18
He never took answers, but made every request the subject of a prolonged correspondence; till at last some energetic Assistant-Secretary declared that it should no longer be borne, and Captain Cuttwater was dismissed with pension and half-pay.
During his service he had contrived to save some four or five thousand pounds, and now he was about to retire with an assured income adequate to all his wants.
The public who had the paying of Captain Cuttwater may, perhaps, think that he was amply remunerated for what he had done; but the captain himself entertained a very different opinion. Such is the view which we are obliged to take of the professional side of Captain Cuttwater's character.
But the professional side was by far the worst.
Counting fathoms of rope and looking after unruly midshipmen on shore are not duties capable of bringing out in high relief the better traits of a main's character.
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