He had been going all over the boat, after taking leave of his captain.

Ferragut received him with averted face, avoiding his glance, and with a complex and contradictory gesture.

He felt angry at being vanquished and the shame of weakness yet, allied to these sensations, was the instinctive gratitude which one experiences upon being freed from an unwise step by a violent hand which mistreats and saves.
"You are to remain, Toni!" he said in a dull voice.

"There is nothing to say.

I will redeem my word as best I can....