lightly
snoring, or fetching deep sighs, or splashing and blowing in his
bath-room; and we made our reports to him through the keyhole, as
it were. It was the crowning achievement of his amiable character
that the answers we got were given in a quite mild and friendly
tone. Some commanders in their periods of seclusion are constantly
grumpy, and seem to resent the mere sound of your voice as an
injury and an insult.
But a grumpy recluse cannot worry his subordinates: whereas the
man in whom the sense of duty is strong (or, perhaps, only the
sense of self-importance), and who persists in airing on deck his
moroseness all day - and perhaps half the night - becomes a
grievous infliction. He walks the poop darting gloomy glances, as
though he wished to poison the sea, and snaps your head off
savagely whenever you happen to blunder within earshot. And these
vagaries are the harder to bear patiently, as becomes a man and an
officer, because no sailor is really good-tempered during the first
few days of a voyage. There are regrets, memories, the instinctive
longing for the departed idleness, the instinctive hate of all
work. Besides, things have a knack of going wrong at the start,
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