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Besides, when he took off his oilskin coat he reminded me less of a sailor than of a homely draper of some country town, with his clean turned-down collar and neatly fitting frieze jacket. We exchanged some polite platitudes about the fog and his voyage last night from Kappeln, which appeared to be a town some fifteen miles up the fiord.
'I took my apples to Kappeln, he said, sedately, 'and now I sail to Kiel, and so to Hamburg, where my wife and children are. It is my last voyage of the year. You are no longer alone, captain, I see. He had taken off his dripping sou'-wester and was bowing ceremoniously towards me. 'Oh, I quite forgot! said Davies, who had been kneeling on one knee in the low doorway, absorbed in his visitor.
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