Reprove sounds pedantic.

That will do, but bear in mind my wishes." "Oh, there you are, Mr Herrick," said the first lieutenant, a few minutes later.

"I want you.

Find that Chinaman and the ship's tailor, and bring them both to my cabin." "Yes, sir," I said, wondering; and I hunted them out, told them to follow me, and led the way to Mr Reardon's cabin.
"Shut the door," he said sharply.
I obeyed, and the lieutenant consulted a scrap of paper upon which he had pencilled a few memoranda.
"Now, tailor," he said, "you will have an order for a sufficiency of white duck." "Yes, sir." "And by this time to-morrow I want twenty loose frocks cut and made after the fashion of this man's blue cotton blouse thing." "Couldn't be done, sir, in the time," said the tailor respectfully.
"They must be done, my man.

I don't care how roughly they are made, nor how badly sewn, but they must be cut to this pattern.