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 | | Now, sir, if a midshipman is to argue the point every time that an order is given, the service will come to a pretty pass." "That is all very true, Sawbridge; and now you remind me of what never occurred to me at the time that I promised to take Mr Easy in the ship. |
 | | In a midshipman's berth, this fact has become almost proverbial, although now perhaps it is not attended with that disagreeable despotism which was permitted at the time that our hero entered the service. |
 | | The bully of the midshipman's berth of H.M. sloop Harpy Was a young man about seventeen, with light, curly hair, and florid countenance, the son of the clerk in the dockyard at Plymouth, and his name was Vigors. |
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