"If you wish to injure him in my estimation, you will not succeed." "He is going to get up a mutiny one of these days.

He told me all about it," continued Wilton, desperately, when he found that the principal was in no mood to listen to his backbiting.
"That will do, Wilton?
I don't wish to hear anything more about that matter.

Your testimony against Shuffles, under present circumstances, is not worth the breath you use in uttering it." "I thought it was my duty to tell you, if any one was trying to get up a mutiny." "You did not think so; you are telling me this story to revenge yourself against the third lieutenant for his fidelity.

Whether there is, or is not, any truth in what you say, I shall take no notice of it." "It is all true, sir.

He did speak to me about getting up a mutiny, locking up the professors, taking the ship, and going round Cape Horn; and he will not deny it." "He will have no opportunity to deny it to me, for I shall not mention the subject to him.