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CHAPTER XV THE BITTER LESSON ENDS
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Among his fellow-captains the master of the Thurifer was accounted a lucky man for his wonderfully smart passages and almost complete immunity1 from accident, the occasional loss of a spar now and then being merely incidental to the making of such passages, and hardly to be called accidents. This voyage, in spite of its inauspicious beginning, was no exception to the rule, for after getting out of the Channel and licking his scratch crew into shape, nothing ever seemed to go wrong again. Luck had but little to do with it, but consummate2 seamanship had, and the ability and determination which made his men admire while they hated him.
Poor Frank, who in spite of his high courage and dogged perseverance4 had drunk the bitter cup of unhappiness and loneliness to the dregs, could not help feeling that in one way, at any rate, the captain was rendering5 him a service, that is, by getting the ship as quickly to port as possible, for although hope was nearly dead within him, he could not help stealing over him now and then a shadow of anticipation6 that relief might come; but he did fear that it might come too late to save him from what he felt would be the irreparable[315] harm of making him hate the profession he had loved so sincerely. He did not realise that even this cold neglect, overwork, and incessant7 fault-finding that he had been subjected to had been productive of benefit to others. He had been driven to devote himself during work hours, whenever possible, to assisting the boys to learn as much as he knew himself, and had fired them with emulation8, so that they were all in a fair way of becoming good seamen9 much more rapidly than would otherwise have been the case.
At last, after a splendid passage of eighty-four days from Liverpool, the Thurifer was hove to off the Sandheads to receive her pilot from one of the beautiful brigs which
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