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He knows only too well that your dear uncle would know at once what was the matter with him." "But he's such a smart-looking fellow so clean, Mr Maine says, that he is quite a pattern to the others when he comes on parade." "Oh yes, that's all right, my dear; but who makes him smart? Who cleans his buttons and buckles, and pipeclays him, but his poor wife?
But in peace, that too passes into mere demand of the ostentations, of the pipeclays and the blank cartridges; and, except that Naval men are occasionally, on long voyages, forced to hold their tongue, and converse with the dumb elements, and illimitable oceans, that moan and rave there without you and within you, which is a great advantage to the Naval man, our poor United Services have to make conversational windbags and ostentational paper-lanterns of themselves, or do worse, even as the others.
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