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On the other hand, to palm himself off on his uncle for a true man was adding hypocrisy to his other crime. Such an objection, however, could hardly have turned the scale. Great crimes are magnets of smaller ones. It was necessary for Helwyse to alter the whole scheme of his life-voyage; and since he had failed in beating up against the wind, why not make all sail before it?
"I hope we are all Christians," began the speaker, "at least so far that we believe the Scriptures; otherwise my arguments will not appeal to you." A number acknowledged themselves to be Christians. "Then I may begin by saying that the purpose of this life-voyage of ours is that we might obtain the life eternal.
And every one of them had a father and mother a wife, perhaps, and children, waiting for him at least a whole human life, childhood, boyhood, manhood, in him. All those years of toil and education, to get him so far on his life-voyage; and here is the end thereof! 'Say rather, the beginning thereof, Claude answered, stepping into the boat.
I wanted very much to tell my friend what had occurred in Catherine's shop, but I would not begin till we were safe from interruption; and so we chatted away concerning many things, he telling me about his seafaring life, and I telling him some of the few remarkable things that had happened to me in the course of my life-voyage.
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