"But I am willing, of course, to pay anything you think well, for my food and my passage." I waived that suggestion aside, and stood irresolutely looking at him, with no very hospitable expression in my eyes, I dare say.

But really my distaste for him was an unreasoning prejudice, and Charlie Webster's phrase came to my mind--"His face is against him, poor devil!" It certainly was.
Then at last I said, surely not overgraciously: "Very well.

Get aboard.
You can help work the boat"; and with that I turned away to my cabin..