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"An' it's always the good ones that get nabbed." He eyed the King's Messenger with an expression of melancholy omniscience. "Not so suspicious, you know." "Well," said Thorogood, "that is as may be: but I'm off to bed. Come along, Mouldy." The misogamist suffered himself to be led to the double-berthed compartment he shared with Thorogood.
By the light of his candle lantern the prospects were extremely poor. The fir branches in the double-berthed bunk were dry and useless, the floor was crumbling under his feet, and the roof of the lean-to had fallen in and crushed the rusty stove.
There were only three sleeping bunks aboard, one being double-berthed, so they "turned in" alternately. When they had finished their feast, celebrating the Assumption of their patron saint, it was a little past midnight.
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