Perhaps he might not get another job, perhaps the other captains might not like him, considering him to have grown too habituated to excessive familiarity.

But, if it should be necessary, he would again become the skipper of a little coast-trader....

Good-by! He would not sleep on board that night.
Ferragut was very indignant, even yelling angrily: "But, don't be such a barbarian!...

What a stubborn fool you are!...
What do these exaggerated scruples amount to ?..." Then he smiled malignly and said in a low tone, "You know already what we know, and I know very well that in your youth you carried contraband." Toni drew himself up haughtily.

Now it was he who was indignant.
"I have carried contraband, yes.