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The ship had been mishandled, made to look ridiculous - all that unofficer-like, unseamanlike swearing and shouting and noise in the course of an everyday manoeuvre that the old Surprise would have carried through without the slightest fuss and with little more than the single order 'Unmoor ship" - would have carried it through like a man-of-war rather than a slapdash privateer. It was a desecration;
Tanto los oficiales como los marineros habían tenido un comportamiento impropio, pues habían gritado, blasfemado y armado un barullo al hacer una maniobra habitual que los viejos tripulantes de la Surprise hubieran hecho sin el menor alboroto y con apenas más órdenes que «¡Levar anclas!», como los tripulantes de un barco de guerra, no como los de un negligente barco corsario.
Jack was well acquainted with Stephen's ferocious defence of his patients, even the most unseamanlike of them, once they were under his hands: adding to this the likeness that had so struck him, and to his friend's present unparalleled acerbity (for Stephen had not spoken with a smile: there had been a cruel edge to his voice), he checked the words that were rising in his throat. It called for a considerable effort, however, for Jack was neither the most patient nor the most long-suffering of men, and it seemed to him that on this occasion Stephen had let his tongue run away with him.
Jack estaba acostumbrado a que Stephen defendiera con fiereza a sus pacientes —incluso al peor de los marineros— mientras estaban a su cargo. Y teniendo en cuenta, además de esto, el parecido que tanto le había sorprendido y la profunda amargura que su amigo tenía ahora (pues Stephen había hablado sin sonreír y en un tono hiriente) ahogó las palabras que estaban formándose en su garganta. Sin embargo, tuvo que hacer un gran esfuerzo, porque no era ni el más paciente ni el más sufrido de los hombres, y le parecía que esta vez Stephen se había extralimitado. Entonces, secamente, le dijo:
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