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Besides, you've just been married." "And you've been married for five years," said Fred, with a sudden sense of help at hand. "How do you suppose your wife feels?" Captain Crayme's jollity subsided a little, but with only a little hesitation he replied: "Oh! she's used to it; she doesn't mind it." "You're the only person in town that thinks so, Sam," said Fred.
Crayme's happiness had been frightening some of her years away, and her smile carried Sam himself back to his pre-marital period as she said: "Never mind the rest; I see you don't want me to go," and then she became Mrs. Crayme again as she said, pressing her face closely to her husband's breast, "but I hope you won't get any freight, anywhere, so you can get home all the sooner."
Fred laughed, but his laughter soon made place for a look of tender solicitude. The unexpected turn that had been reached in the conversation he had so dreaded, and the sympathy which had been awakened in him by Crayme's confidence and openness, temporarily made of Fred Macdonald a man with whom Fred himself had never before been acquainted. A sudden idea struck him.
He felt ashamed even to look squarely into Crayme's eye, and his mind was greatly relieved when the captain turned his face to the wall and exclaimed: "Fred, for goodness' sake get out of here; I feel enough like a baby now, without having a nurse alongside. I'll do well enough for a few hours; just look in once in a while."
The conversation continued with considerable strain to Fred's amiability; but his sophistry was no match for his wife's earnestness, and he was finally compelled to promise that he would make an appeal to Crayme, with whom he had a business engagement, on the arrival of Crayme's boat, the Excellence.
"Moshier is a contractor, and Crayme's a steamboat captain; such men never reform, though they always are good fellows. Why, if I were to speak to either of them on the subject, they'd laugh in my face, or curse me. The only way I was able to make peace with them for stopping drinking myself, was to say that I did it to please my wife." "Did they accept that as sufficient excuse?" asked Esther.
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