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However , it was too late to repent , had he wished it ; and so he got back to chapel , and destroyed the whole effect of the morning service on Miller 's mind , by delivering Blake 's message to that choleric coxswain as soon as chapel was over . Miller vowed for the twentieth time that Blake should be turned out of the boat , and went off to the Captain 's rooms to torment him , and consult what was to be done . The weather continued magnificent -- a soft , dull grey March day , and a steady wind ; and the thought of the lucky fishermen , and visions of creels filled with huge three-pounders , haunted Tom at lecture , and throughout the day . At two o'clock he was down at the river . The college eight was to go down for the first time in the season to the reached below Nuneham , for a good training pull , and he had notice , to his great joy , that he was to be tried in the boat . But , great , no doubt , as was the glory , the price was a heavy one . This was the first time he had been subjected to the tender mercies of Miller , the coxswain , or had pulled behind the Captain ; and it did not take long to convince him that it was a very different style of thing from anything he had as yet been accustomed to in the freshman 's crew .