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You have seen little action against the Terrans?" "None, Fleet-Captain." The officer sounded reluctant to admit that, but went on. "My ship and I are normally on colony patrol. This will be our first battle." Arjen hid his brief amusement at the young Ship-Captain's obvious anticipation; he had felt that way himself, early in the war. "Not if things go well.
And a ship-captain's like a woman's husband; he'll put up with a lot to keep any trace of scandal away from her." "That's the holy truth." "A skipper on one of the bigger passenger lines would be just as keen as you could be not to have his ship mixed up with anything discreditable. But passengers are an impious lot.
"Sall had a stocking full of money," he informed us, "silver, and copper, and gold, when he married her, for her mother had been a famous huckster and never missed her post in the Philadelphia market for thirty years, and this was her child's inheritance, and with this money he had fixed up his old hut, till it looked 'e'en a'most inside like a ship-captain's cabin."
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