The Battle and the Breeze. Robert Michael Ballantyne

it so happened that Bill was placed in the same mess with the man whose nose he had treated so unceremoniously on the day of his capture. He was annoyed at this, but the first time he chanced to be alone with him, he changed his mind, and the two became fast friends. It happened thus:—

      They were standing on the weather-side of the forecastle in the evening, looking over the side at the setting sun.