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They had been floating about the dock in that mizzly cold rain for nearly an hour. I was never so surprised in my life. "It appears that when he heard my shout 'Come up, he understood at once what was the matter, caught up his wife, ran on deck, and across, and down into our boat, which was fast to the ladder. Not bad for a sixty-year-old.
It never got excited or did silly things like other people's faces. It never got red and shiny like Auntie Louie's face, or hot and rough like Auntie Emmeline's, or wet and mizzly like Auntie Edie's. The softness and whiteness and dryness of his mother's face were delightful to Nicky. So was her hair.
I was the boy who would have been sent home with a hole through him I the boy who write this and the other boy who would have been broken in half, was one whom I had encountered at the dock-gates, where we had both arrived together, that miserable, mizzly morning, in four-wheeled cabs with our sea-chests on the top, and both in mortal dread and yet somehow hopeful that we should be too late, and that the good ship Burgh Castle had sailed.
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