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I do not know how it was, for I am sure that I ought to have despised him for his unmanly and incessant weeping, I knew that he had offended the laws of his country, yet, when the great lout went forward disconsolately, and sat himself down, amidst the derision of the seamen, upon a gun-carriage on the forecastle, I could not help going and dispersing the scoffers, and felt annoyingly inclined to take his toil-embrowned hand, sit down beside, and cry with him.
"I don't care if she does." "Thank you for your offer, Tom, but I must go alone. Perhaps I shall prosper out there. I hope so, at any rate." "Have you got any money, Master Jasper? I've got a few dollars laid by. If they'll do you any good you're welcome to take 'em. I shan't need 'em." "Thank you, Tom," said Jasper, cordially grasping his toil-embrowned hand, "but I am well provided for. Mr.
In some cases, fashion had so far got the better of tradition, that the reins were handled by a smart-looking lady in hat and feathers and fashionable dress, but for the most part by toil-embrowned homely women, with a coloured handkerchief twisted round their heads and no pretention to gentility.
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