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'Answer the captain instantly, cried Hugh, beating his hat down on his head; 'why don't you ever tell what trade you're of? 'I'm of as gen-teel a calling, brother, as any man in England as light a business as any gentleman could desire. 'Was you 'prenticed to it? asked Mr Tappertit. 'No. Natural genius, said Mr Dennis. 'No 'prenticing. It come by natur'. Muster Gashford knows my calling.
He looked another man from the cruel, relentless Prince who had ridden so sternly at the head of his men-at-arms and looked so callously on at the death of men and the yet more bitter agony of women. He stared at the floor, absorbed in his own gloomy thoughts, while my father regarded him with his eyes as though he had been a lad in his 'prenticing who needed encouragement to persevere.
Never, all these years, had she forgiven the ex-minister those representations he had once made on the subject of David's 'prenticing. Then the new-comer sat down by Reuben cheerily, parrying the farmer's concern about his altered looks, and watching Louie, who had thrown him a careless word in answer to his greeting.
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