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THE NAVAL OFFICER.
CHAPTER VI.
And oft his smooth and bridled tongue
Would give the lie to his flushing cheek:
He was a coward to the strong:
He was a tyrant to the weak.
Shelly.
My father, as soon as he had obtained my promotion, asked for my being employed; and having had a promise from the Admiralty, that promise, unlike thousands of its predecessors and successors, was too rapidly fulfilled. I received a letter from my father, aid a bouncing one from the Admiralty, by the same post, announcing officially my appointment to the
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