Those men are cursing because their desires have been outraged.

That is all.

What desires?
The desires for the good grub and soft beds ashore which a handsome pay-day brings them--the women and the drink, the gorging and the beastliness which so truly expresses them, the best that is in them, their highest aspirations, their ideals, if you please.

The exhibition they make of their feelings is not a touching sight, yet it shows how deeply they have been touched, how deeply their purses have been touched, for to lay hands on their purses is to lay hands on their souls." "'You hardly behave as if your purse had been touched," she said, smilingly.
"Then it so happens that I am behaving differently, for my purse and my soul have both been touched.

At the current price of skins in the London market, and based on a fair estimate of what the afternoon's catch would have been had not the _Macedonia_ hogged it, the _Ghost_ has lost about fifteen hundred dollars' worth of skins." "You speak so calmly--" she began.
"But I do not feel calm; I could kill the man who robbed me," he interrupted.