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He could no more have tore himself away at that moment than he could have embraced the barge-man swearing blue murder at his feet. "Madam, these are misfortunes that may happen to the greatest, and 'tis easy seen that in your case breeding and birth combine with beauty. Is it indiscreet to ask the name of the ladies I have the honour to address?"
But that he was taller and thinner, and that the bright colour and auburn curls were gone, they would have said at once it was Charley Channing. The master let fall the birch and the lid of his desk. "Channing!" he uttered, as the child walked up to him. "Is it really you? What has become of you all this time? Where have you been?" "I have been a long way in a barge, sir. The barge-man saved me.
Some sailors are very fond of belonging to the boats, and deem it a great honour to be a Commodore's barge-man; but others, perceiving no particular distinction in that office, do not court it so much. On the second day after arriving at Rio, one of the gig-men fell sick, and, to my no small concern, I found myself temporarily appointed to his place.
In London, and for a moment, Richard saw a girl he looked at twice. But she straightway drank beer with the gusto of a barge-man, and the vision passed. It was the evening after his return, and Richard at the Waldorf sat amusing himself with those tides of vulgar humanity that ebb and flow in a stretch of garish corridor known as Peacock Lane.
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