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The Shuttle Chapter 7 - On Board the Meridiana · The Frances Hodgson Burnett Library

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  Speaker 1: CHAPTER VII ON BOARD THE MERIDIANA A large transatlantic steamer
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  Speaker 1: lying at the wharf on a brilliant sunny morning just
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  Speaker 1: before its departure is an interesting and suggestive object to
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  Speaker 1: those who are fond of following suggestion to its end.
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  Speaker 1: One sometimes wonders if it is possible that the excitement
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  Speaker 1: in the dock atmosphere could ever become a thing to
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  Speaker 1: which one was sufficiently accustomed to be able to regard
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  Speaker 1: it as among things commonplace. The rumbling and rattling of
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  Speaker 1: wagons and carts, the loading and unloading of boxes and bales,
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  Speaker 1: the people who are late and the people who are early,
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  Speaker 1: the faces which are excited and the faces which are sad,
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  Speaker 1: the trunks and bales, the cranes which creak and groan,
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  Speaker 1: the shouts and cries, the hurry and confusion of movement,
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  Speaker 1: notwithstanding that every day has seen them all for years,
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  Speaker 1: have a sort of perennial interest to the looker-on. This
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  Speaker 1: is perhaps more especially the case when the looker-on is
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  Speaker 1: to be a passenger on the outgoing ship, and the
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  Speaker 1: exhilaration of his point of view may greatly depend upon
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  Speaker 1: the reason for his voyage and the class by which
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  Speaker 1: he travels. Gaiety and youth usually appear upon the promenade
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  Speaker 1: deck having taken saloon passage. Dullness, commerce, and eld mingling
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  Speaker 1: with them it is true, but with a discretion which
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  Speaker 1: does not seem to dominate. Second-class passengers wear a more
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  Speaker 1: practical aspect, and youth among them is rarer and more grave.
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  Speaker 1: People who must travel second and third class make voyages
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  Speaker 1: for utilitarian reasons. Their object is usually to better themselves
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  Speaker 1: in one way or another. When they are going from
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  Speaker 1: Liverpool to New York, it is usually to enter upon
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  Speaker 1: new efforts and new labours. When they are returning from
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  Speaker 1: New York to Liverpool, it is often because the new
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  Speaker 1: life has proved less to be depended upon than the old,
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  Speaker 1: and they are bearing back with them bitterness of soul
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  Speaker 1: and discouragement of spirit. On the brilliant spring morning when
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  Speaker 1: the huge liner Meridiana was to sail for England, a
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  Speaker 1: young man, who was a second-class passenger, leaned upon the
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  Speaker 1: ship's rail and watched the turmoil on the wharf with
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  Speaker 1: a detached and not at all buoyant air. His air
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  Speaker 1: was detached because he had other things in his mind
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  Speaker 1: than those merely passing before him and he was not
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  Speaker 1: buoyant because they were not cheerful or encouraging subjects for reflection.
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  Speaker 1: He was a big young man, well hung together, and
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  Speaker 1: carrying himself well. His face was square-jawed and rugged, and
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  Speaker 1: he had dark red hair, restrained by its close cut
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  Speaker 1: from waving strongly on his forehead. His eyes were red-brown,
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  Speaker 1: and a few dark freckles marked his clear skin. He
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  Speaker 1: was of the order of man one looks at twice,
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  Speaker 1: having looked at him once, though one does not in
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  Speaker 1: the least know why. and this one finally reaches some
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  Speaker 1: degree of intimacy. He watched the vehicles, heavy and light,
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  Speaker 1: roll into the big shed-like building and deposit their freight.
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  Speaker 1: He heard the voices and caught the sentences of instruction
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  Speaker 1: and comment. He saw boxes and bales hauled from the
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  Speaker 1: dockside to the deck, and swung below with the rattling
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  Speaker 1: of machinery and chains. But these formed merely a noisy
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  Speaker 1: background to his mood, which was self-centred and gloomy. He
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  Speaker 1: was one of those who go back to their native
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  Speaker 1: land knowing themselves conquered. He had left England two years before,
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  Speaker 1: feeling obstinately determined to accomplish a certain difficult thing, but
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  Speaker 1: forces of nature combining with the circumstances of previous education
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  Speaker 1: and living had beaten him. He had lost two years
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  Speaker 1: and all the money he had ventured. He was going
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  Speaker 1: back to the place he had come from, and he
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  Speaker 1: was carrying with him a sense of having been used
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  Speaker 1: hardly by fortune, and in a way he had not deserved.
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  Speaker 1: He had gone out to the West with the intention
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  Speaker 1: of working hard and using his hands as well as
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  Speaker 1: his brains.' He had not been squeamish. He had, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: laboured like a ploughman, and to be obliged to give
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  Speaker 1: in had been galling and bitter. There are human beings
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  Speaker 1: into whose consciousness of themselves the possibility of being beaten
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  Speaker 1: does not enter. This man was one of them. The
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  Speaker 1: ship was of the huge and luxuriously fitted class by
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  Speaker 1: which the rich and fortunate are transported from one continent
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  Speaker 1: to another. Passengers could indulge themselves in suites of rooms
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  Speaker 1: and live sumptuously. As the man leaning on the rail
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  Speaker 1: looked on, he saw messengers bearing baskets and boxes of
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  Speaker 1: fruit and flowers, with cards and notes attached, hurrying up
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  Speaker 1: the gangway to deliver them to waiting stewards. These were
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  Speaker 1: the farewell offerings to be placed in staterooms or to
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  Speaker 1: await their owners on the saloon tables. Salter— the second-class passenger's
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  Speaker 1: name was Salter— had seen a few such offerings before on
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  Speaker 1: the first crossing, but there had not been such lavishness
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  Speaker 1: at Liverpool. It was the New Yorkers who were sumptuous
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  Speaker 1: in such matters, as he had been told. He had
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  Speaker 1: also heard casually that the passenger list on this voyage
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  Speaker 1: was to record important names, the names of multi-millionaire people
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  Speaker 1: who were going over for the London season. Two stewards
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  Speaker 1: talking near him, earlier in the morning, had been exulting
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  Speaker 1: over the probable largesse such a list would result in
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the voyage.' The Worthingtons and the
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  Speaker 1: Hirams and the John William Spaters,' said one.' They travel
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  Speaker 1: all right.'' They know what they want, and they want
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  Speaker 1: a good deal, and they're willing to pay for it.' Yes,
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  Speaker 1: they're not school-teachers going over to improve their minds,' and
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  Speaker 1: contriving to cross in a big ship by economising in
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  Speaker 1: everything else.' Miss Vanderpool's sailing with the Worthingtons.' She' s got
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  Speaker 1: the best suite all to herself.' She' ll bring back a
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  Speaker 1: duke or one of those Prince-fellers.' How many millions has Vanderpool?''
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  Speaker 1: How many millions? How many hundred millions?' said his companion,'
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  Speaker 1: gloating cheerfully over the vastness of unknown possibilities.' i've crossed
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  Speaker 1: with miss vanderpoel often two or three times when she
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  Speaker 1: was in short frocks she's the kind of girl you'd
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  Speaker 1: read about and she's got money enough to buy in
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  Speaker 1: half a dozen princes there are new yorkers who won't
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  Speaker 1: like it if she does returned the other there's been
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  Speaker 1: too much money going out of the country her suite
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  Speaker 1: is crammed full of jack roses now and there are
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  Speaker 1: boxes waiting outside salter moved away and heard no more
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  Speaker 1: he moved away in fact because he was conscious that
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  Speaker 1: to a man in his case this dwelling upon millions,
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  Speaker 1: this plethora of wealth was a little revolting. He had
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  Speaker 1: walked down Broadway and seen the price of Giacomino roses,
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  Speaker 1: and he was not soothed or allured at this particular
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  Speaker 1: moment by the picture of a girl whose half-dozen cabins
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  Speaker 1: were crowded with them.' Oh, the devil,' he said,' it
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  Speaker 1: sounds vulgar!' And he walked up and down fast, squaring
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  Speaker 1: his shoulders, with his hands in the pockets of his rough,
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  Speaker 1: well-worn coat. He had seen in England something of the
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  Speaker 1: American young women with millionaire relatives. He had been scarcely
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  Speaker 1: more than a boy when the American flood first began
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  Speaker 1: to rise. He had been old enough, however, to hear
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  Speaker 1: people talk. As he had grown older, Salter had observed
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  Speaker 1: its advance. Englishmen had married American beauties. American fortunes had
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  Speaker 1: built up English houses, which otherwise threatened to fall into decay.
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  Speaker 1: Then the American faculty of adaptability came into play. Anglo-American
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  Speaker 1: wives became sometimes more English than their husbands. They proceeded
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  Speaker 1: to anglicise their relations, their relations' clothes, even in time
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  Speaker 1: their speech. They carried or sent English conventions to the States,
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  Speaker 1: their brothers ordered their clothes from West End tailors, their
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  Speaker 1: sisters began to wear walking dresses, to play out-of-door games
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  Speaker 1: and take active exercise. Their mothers tentatively took houses in
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  Speaker 1: London or Paris, There came a period when their fathers
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  Speaker 1: or uncles, serious or anxious businessmen, the most unsporting of
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  Speaker 1: human beings, rented castles or manors with huge moors and
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  Speaker 1: covers attached, and entertained large parties of shooters or fishers
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  Speaker 1: who could be lured to any quarter by the promise
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  Speaker 1: of the particular form of slaughter for which they burned.
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  Speaker 1: Sheer American business perspicacity that, said Salter as he marched
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  Speaker 1: up and down, thinking of a particular case of this order.
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  Speaker 1: There's something admirable in the practical way they make for
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  Speaker 1: what they want. They want to amalgamate with English people,
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  Speaker 1: not for their own sake, but because their women like it,
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  Speaker 1: and so they offer the men thousands of acres full
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  Speaker 1: of things to kill. They can get them by paying
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  Speaker 1: for them, and they know how to pay.' He laughed
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  Speaker 1: a little, lifting his square shoulders.' Balthamore' s six thousand acres
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  Speaker 1: of grass more, and Elstey's salmon-fishing are rented by the
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  Speaker 1: Chicago man. He doesn't care tuppence for them.' and doesn't
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  Speaker 1: know a pheasant from a capercail sea but his wife
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  Speaker 1: wants to know men who do it must be confessed
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  Speaker 1: that salter was of the english who were not pleased
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  Speaker 1: with the american invasion in some of his views of
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  Speaker 1: the matter he was a little prehistoric and savage but
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  Speaker 1: the modern side of his character was too intelligent to
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  Speaker 1: lack reason He was by no means entirely modern, however.
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  Speaker 1: A large part of his nature belonged to the age
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  Speaker 1: in which men had fought fiercely for what they wanted
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  Speaker 1: to get or keep, and when the amenities of commerce
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  Speaker 1: had not become powerful factors in existence. They're not a
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  Speaker 1: bad lot, he was thinking at this moment. They're rather
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  Speaker 1: fine in a way. They're clever and powerful and interesting,
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  Speaker 1: more so than they know themselves. But it's all commerce.
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  Speaker 1: They don't come and fight with us and get possession
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  Speaker 1: of us by force. They come and buy us. They
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  Speaker 1: buy our land and our homes and our landowners, for
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  Speaker 1: that matter. When they don't buy them, they send their
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  Speaker 1: women to marry them. Confound it! He took half a
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  Speaker 1: dozen more strides and lifted his shoulders again. Vaguely lot
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  Speaker 1: as I am, he said, unlikely as it seems that
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  Speaker 1: I can marry at all, I'm hanged if I don't
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  Speaker 1: marry an Englishwoman, if I give my life to a
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  Speaker 1: woman at all. but in fact he was of the
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  Speaker 1: opinion that he should never give his life to any woman,
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  Speaker 1: and this was because he was, at this period, also
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  Speaker 1: of the opinion that there was small prospect of its
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  Speaker 1: ever being worth the giving or taking. It had been
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  Speaker 1: one of those lives which begin untowardly and are ruled
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  Speaker 1: by unfair circumstances. He had a particularly well-cut and expressive mouth,
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  Speaker 1: and as he went back to the ship's side and
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  Speaker 1: leaned on his folded arms on the rail again, its
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  Speaker 1: curves concealed a good deal of strong feeling. The wharf
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  Speaker 1: was busier than before. In less than half an hour
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  Speaker 1: the ship was to sail. The bustle and confusion had increased.
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  Speaker 1: There were people hurrying about looking for friends, and there
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  Speaker 1: were people scribbling off excited farewell messages at the telegraph office.
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  Speaker 1: The situation was working up to its climax. An observing
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  Speaker 1: looker-on might catch glimpses of emotional scenes. Many of the
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  Speaker 1: passengers were already on board, parties of them, accompanied by
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  Speaker 1: their friends, were making their way up the gangplank. Salter
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  Speaker 1: had just been watching a luxuriously cared-for little invalid woman
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  Speaker 1: being carried on deck in a reclining chair, when his
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  Speaker 1: attention was attracted by the sound of trampling hooves and
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  Speaker 1: rolling wheels. Two noticeably big and smart carriages had driven
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  Speaker 1: up to the stopping-place for vehicles. They were gorgeously of
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  Speaker 1: the latest mode. and their tall, satin-skinned horses jangled silver
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  Speaker 1: chains and stepped up to their noses. Here come the Worthingtons,
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  Speaker 1: whosoever they may be, thought Salter. The fine, upstanding young
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  Speaker 1: woman is no doubt the multimillionaires. The fine, upstanding young
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  Speaker 1: woman was the multimillionaires. Bettina walked up the gangway in
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  Speaker 1: the sunshine, and the passengers upon the upper deck craned
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  Speaker 1: their necks to look at her. The carriage of her
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  Speaker 1: head and shoulders invariably made people turn to look.' My,
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  Speaker 1: ain't she fine-looking!' exclaimed an excited lady beholder above.' I
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  Speaker 1: guess that must be Miss Vanderpool, the multimillionaire's daughter. Jane
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  Speaker 1: told me she'd heard she was crossing this trip.' Bettina
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  Speaker 1: heard her. She sometimes wondered if she was ever pointed out,
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  Speaker 1: if her name was ever mentioned without the addition of
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  Speaker 1: the explanatory statement that she was the multimillionaire's daughter.' As
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  Speaker 1: a child she had thought it ridiculous and tiresome. As
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  Speaker 1: she had grown older she had felt that only a
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  Speaker 1: remarkable individuality could surmount a fact so ever-present. It was
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  Speaker 1: like a tremendous quality which overshadowed everything else.' It wounds
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  Speaker 1: my vanity, I have no doubt,' she said to her father.'
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  Speaker 1: Nobody ever sees me. They only see you and your
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  Speaker 1: millions and millions of dollars.' Salter watched her pass up
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  Speaker 1: the gangway. The phase through which he was living was
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  Speaker 1: not of the order which leads a man to dwell
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  Speaker 1: upon the beautiful and inspiring as expressed by the female image.
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  Speaker 1: Success and the hopefulness which engender warmth of soul and
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  Speaker 1: quickness of heart are required for the development of such allurements.
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  Speaker 1: He thought of the Vanderpool millions as the lady on
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  Speaker 1: the deck had thought of them, and in his mind
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  Speaker 1: somehow the girl herself appeared to express them. The rich,
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  Speaker 1: upspringing sweep of her abundant hair, her height, her colouring,
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  Speaker 1: the remarkable shade and length of her lashes— the full
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  Speaker 1: curve of her mouth, all, he told himself, looked expensive,
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  Speaker 1: as if even nature herself had been given carte blanche
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  Speaker 1: and the best possible articles procured for the money. She moves,
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  Speaker 1: he thought sardonically, as if she were perfectly aware that
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  Speaker 1: she could pay for anything. An unlimited income, no doubt,
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  Speaker 1: establishes in the owner the equivalent to a sense of rank.
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  Speaker 1: He changed his position for one in which he could
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  Speaker 1: command a view of the promenade deck where the arriving
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  Speaker 1: passengers were gradually appearing. He did this from the idle
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  Speaker 1: and careless curiosity, which, though it is not a matter
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  Speaker 1: of absolute interest, does not object to being entertained by
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  Speaker 1: passing objects. He saw the Worthington party reappear. It struck
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  Speaker 1: Salter that they looked not so much like persons coming
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  Speaker 1: on board a ship, as like people who were returning
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  Speaker 1: to a hotel to which they were accustomed, and which
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  Speaker 1: was also accustomed to them. He argued that they had
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  Speaker 1: probably crossed the Atlantic innumerable times in this particular steamer,
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  Speaker 1: The deck stewards knew them, and made obeisance with impressment.
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  Speaker 1: Miss Vanderpool nodded to the stewards Salter had heard discussing her.
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  Speaker 1: She gave him a smile of recognition, and paused a
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  Speaker 1: moment to speak to him. Salter saw her sweep the
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  Speaker 1: deck with her glance, and then designate a sequestered corner,
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  Speaker 1: such as the experienced voyager would recognise as being desirably sheltered.
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  Speaker 1: She was evidently giving an order concerning the placing of
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  Speaker 1: her deck-chair, which was presently brought. An elegantly neat and
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  Speaker 1: decorous person in black, who was evidently her maid, appeared later,
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  Speaker 1: followed by a steward who carried cushions and sumptuous fur rugs.
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  Speaker 1: These being arranged at a lightful corner was left alluringly prepared.
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  Speaker 1: Miss Vanderpool, after her instructions to the deck steward, had
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  Speaker 1: joined her party and seemed to be awaiting some arrival anxiously.'
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  Speaker 1: She knows how to do herself well,' Salter commented,' and
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  Speaker 1: she realises that forethought is a practical factor.' Millions have
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  Speaker 1: been productive of composure. It's not unnatural, either. It was
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  Speaker 1: but a short time later that the warning bell was rung.
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  Speaker 1: Stewards passed through the crowds, calling out, All ashore, if
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  Speaker 1: you please, all ashore. Final embraces were in order on
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  Speaker 1: all sides. People shook hands with fervour and laughed a
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  Speaker 1: little nervously. Women kissed each other and poured forth hurried
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  Speaker 1: messages to be delivered on the other side of the Atlantic.
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  Speaker 1: Having kissed and parted, Some of them rushed back and
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  Speaker 1: indulged in little clutches again. Notwithstanding that the tide of
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  Speaker 1: humanity surges across the Atlantic almost as regularly as the
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  Speaker 1: daily tide surges in on its shores, a wave of
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  Speaker 1: emotion sweeps through every ship at such partings. Salter stood
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  Speaker 1: on deck and watched the crowd dispersing. Some of the
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  Speaker 1: people were laughing and some had red eyes. Groups collected
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  Speaker 1: on the wharf and tried to say still more last
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  Speaker 1: words to their friends crowding against the rail. The Worthingtons
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  Speaker 1: kept their places, and were still looking out, by this
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  Speaker 1: time disappointedly. It seemed that the friend or friends they
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  Speaker 1: expected were not coming. Salter saw that Miss Vanderpool looked
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  Speaker 1: more disappointed than the rest. She leaned forward and strained
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  Speaker 1: her eyes to see. Just at the last moment there
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  Speaker 1: was the sound of trampling horses and rolling wheels again.
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  Speaker 1: From the arriving carriage descended hastily an elderly woman, who
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  Speaker 1: lifted out a little boy, excited almost to tears. He
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  Speaker 1: was a dear chubby little person in flapping sailor trousers,
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  Speaker 1: and he carried a splendidly comparison toy donkey in his arms.
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  Speaker 1: Salter could not help feeling slightly excited himself as they
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  Speaker 1: rushed forward. He wondered if there were passengers who would
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  Speaker 1: be left behind. They were not passengers, but the arrivals
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  Speaker 1: Miss Vanderpool had been expecting so ardently. They had come
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  Speaker 1: to say good-bye to her, and were too late for
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  Speaker 1: that at least, as the gangway was just about to
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  Speaker 1: be withdrawn. Miss Vanderpool leaned forward with an amazingly fervid
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  Speaker 1: expression on her face.' Tommy, Tommy!' she cried to the
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  Speaker 1: little boy.' Here I am, Tommy. We can say good-bye
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  Speaker 1: from here.' The little boy, looking up, broke into a
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  Speaker 1: wail of despair.' Betty, Betty, Betty!' he cried.' I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to kiss you, Betty!' Betty held out her arms. She
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  Speaker 1: did it with entire forgetfulness of the existence of any lookers-on,
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  Speaker 1: and with such outreaching love on her face that it
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  Speaker 1: seemed as if the child must feel her touch. She
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  Speaker 1: made a beautiful, warm, consoling bud of her mouth.' We' ll
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  Speaker 1: kiss each other from here, Tommy,' she said.' See, we can.
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  Speaker 1: Kiss me, and I'll kiss you.' Tommy held out his
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  Speaker 1: arms and the magnificent donkey.' Betty,' he cried,' I brought
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  Speaker 1: you my donkey. I wanted to give it to you
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  Speaker 1: for a present, because you liked it.' Miss Vanderpool bent
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  Speaker 1: further forward and addressed the elderly woman.' Matilda,' she said,'
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  Speaker 1: please pack Master Tommy's present and send it to me.
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  Speaker 1: I want it very much.' Tender smiles irradiated the small face.
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  Speaker 1: The gangway was withdrawn, and amid the familiar sounds of
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  Speaker 1: a big craft's first struggle, the ship began to move.
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  Speaker 1: Miss Vanderpool still bent forward and held out her arms.'
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  Speaker 1: I' ll soon come back, Tommy,' she cried,' and we are
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  Speaker 1: always friends.' The child held out his short blue serge
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  Speaker 1: arms also, and Salter, watching him, could not but be
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  Speaker 1: touched for all his gloom of mind.' I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: kiss you, Betty,' he heard in farewell.' I did so
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  Speaker 1: want to kiss you.' And so they steamed away upon
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  Speaker 1: the blue. End of chapter 7