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I do declare, we have not had a caller for more than how long is it, Gusty, since Colonel Bigford dropped in?" Maltboy thought her voice had a sweet, metallic ring. "About half an hour," replied Mrs. Frump, after a brief mental calculation. "Why, Gusty!" exclaimed Miss Whedell; "how can you sit there and tell such stories? You know it is not five minutes." "Just as you please, dear," said Mrs.
While the captains were at dinner on the quarter-deck, however, the frigate blew up, and about 200 men, including five captains, were lost. "I was eating my dinner with the rest," writes the surgeon, Richard Browne, "when the mainmasts blew out, and fell upon Captains Aylett, Bigford, and others, and knocked them on the head; I saved myself by getting astride the mizzenmast."
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