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to render myself comprehensible again.
"You don't really mean--" began the youngest young man, in the tone of one
who speaks to an obstinate child.
"
Just pass me that toast-rack," I said, and shut him up completely.
But look here, I say," began one of the others. "We're not going to
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believe that, you know."
"Ah, well," said I, and shrugged my shoulders.
"
He doesn't want to tell us," said the youngest young man in a stage
aside; and then, with an appearance of great sang-froid, "You don't mind
if I take a cigarette?"
I waved him a cordial assent, and proceeded with my breakfast. Two of the
others went and looked out of the farther window and talked inaudibly. I
was struck by a thought. "The tide," I said, "is running out?"
There was a pause, a doubt who should answer me.
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It's near the ebb," said the fat little man.
Well, anyhow," I said, "it won't float far."
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