He then commenced kicking the pales of the partition?
but he might as well have attempted to break through the deck beneath.
"Shuffles," said Peaks, in a low tone, when he had locked the door, "be a man.

You act like a spoiled child now." "I have been insulted, and abused," replied Shuffles, fiercely.
"No, you haven't.

Aboard almost any ship, you would have got a knock on the head with a handspike before this time.

Don't make a fool of yourself.

You are only making yourself ridiculous now--'pon my word as an old sailor, you are." "I'll have satisfaction." "No, you won't, unless you break your own head.