40 THE SHIPWRECK,

have dared to maltreat him at pleasure, and perhaps the
burthen of odium would have rested on the count’s own
shoulders. Bat far, very far from such a line of conduct,
Philip seemed insensible to every pleasure, save that of
vexing and mortifying the count incessantly. Forgetting
the native generosity of his character, Charles tormented
in a thousand ways this miserable sailor, who was entirely
at his mercy; and he even resolved that he would never
relent, till he had forced Merville to bend his stiff neck,
and submit himself in every thing.

“What shall I do with that Philip ? said the Lieutenant
Saint Ague to Count D’Estaing, as the boatswain was
untying him from a cannon at which he had suffered, with
the fortitude of a Spartan, a cruel and ignominious chas~
tisement, which his inflexible obstinacy had drawn upon
him: “he is neither a drunkard nor a blasphemer—he
shuns the company of the dissclute part of the crew; and
yet he alone gives us more trouble than all the rest to~
gether. He seems to me to have merited a higher lot in
life.”

Saint Ague had pronounced these words for the encour-
agement of the unfortunate young man, whose calm
composure under the severest punishment had tcuched his
feelings.