[Astoria by Washington Irving]@TWC D-Link bookAstoria CHAPTER V 3/15
On the very first night Captain Thorn began his man-of-war discipline by ordering the lights in the cabin to be extinguished at eight o'clock. The pride of the partners was immediately in arms.
This was an invasion of their rights and dignities not to be borne.
They were on board of their own ship, and entitled to consult their ease and enjoyment. M'Dougal was the champion of their cause.
He was an active, irritable, fuming, vainglorious little man, and elevated in his own opinion, by being the proxy of Mr.Astor.A violent altercation ensued, in the course of which Thorn threatened to put the partners in irons should they prove refractory; upon which M'Dougal seized a pistol and swore to be the death of the captain should he ever offer such an indignity.
It was some time before the irritated parties could be pacified by the more temperate bystanders. Such was the captain's outset with the partners.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|