Chapter 1. Captain Revel Is Cross
_ CHAPTER ONE. CAPTAIN REVEL IS CROSS
"Late again, Nic," said Captain Revel.
"Very sorry, father."
"Yes, you always are ‘very sorry,‘ sir. I never saw such a fellow to sleep. Why, when I was a lad of your age--let‘s see, you‘re just eighteen."
"Yes, father, and very hungry," said the young man, with a laugh and a glance at the breakfast-table.
"Always are very hungry. Why, when I was a lad of your age I didn‘t lead such an easy-going life as you do. You‘re spoiled, Nic, by an indulgent father.--Here, help me to some of that ham.--Had to keep my watch and turn up on deck at all hours； glad to eat weavilly biscuit.-- Give me that brown bit.--Ah, I ought to have sent you to sea. Made a man of you. Heard the thunder, of course?"
"No, father. Was there a storm?"
"Storm--yes. Lightning as we used to have it in the East Indies, and the rain came down like a waterspout."
"I didn‘t hear anything of it, father."
"No； you‘d sleep t

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