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The man gasped out: "Yes, your ladyship!" I was face to face with the mother of my lovely Mary. "Hoity-toity!" she shouted at me again. "A brawler, eh? A lively swordster, hey? A real damn-my-eyes swaggering bully!" Then she charged upon me. "How dare you brawl with these inoffensive people under the same roof which shelters me, fellow?
And many damn-my-eyes hum-bugs there are in this man-of-war world of ours. The whole of our run from Rio to the Line was one delightful yachting, so far as fine weather and the ship's sailing were concerned. It was especially pleasant when our quarter-watch lounged in the main-top, diverting ourselves in many agreeable ways.
Played rightly, however, Petruchio becomes not a brawler, not a kind of damn-my-eyes bully and braggart, but a practical idealist, a man who, happening by chance upon a creature of stupendous undirected power, sets himself to the direction of that power toward nature's, if not humanity's, ends.
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