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'Do you know I saved your life?' returned the other, not deigning to
look at him, his eyes travelling instead between the compass and the
sails. 'Where would you have been, if that boom had swung out and
you bundled in the clack? No, SIR, we'll have no more of you at the
mainsheet. Seaport towns are full of mainsheet-men; they hop upon one
leg, my son, what's left of them, and the rest are dead. (Set your boom
tackle, Mr Hay.) Struck you, did I? Lucky for you I did.'
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Well,' said Huish slowly, 'I daresay there may be somethink in that.
Ope there is.' He turned his back elaborately on the captain, and
'
entered the house, where the speedy explosion of a champagne cork showed
he was attending to his comfort.
Herrick came aft to the captain. 'How is she doing now?' he asked.
'East and by no'the a half no'the,' said Davis. 'It's about as good as I
expected.'
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What'll the hands think of it?' said Herrick.
Oh, they don't think. They ain't paid to,' says the captain.
There was something wrong, was there not? between you and--' Herrick
paused.
'That's a nasty little beast, that's a biter,' replied the captain,
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