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A slight smile played on his lip in the midst of the indications of his wrath. One might have read in that expression "Not a feature in these two faces in the least similar, and the age is beyond all mortal doubt. I have the gull-flayer on the hip at last." And returning to the companions with the same simulated coolness "Done for a hundred," he said. "That lady is not the mother of that boy."
Since the moment of the lady's answer, he had been conscious of obscure doubts as to her truthfulness, clustering round the suspicion that she might have known, by hearing something, that Dewhurst, the gull-flayer, was on the side of the maternity, and that she wanted to punish him a notion which seemed to be favoured by the somewhat affected manner of her expressing her little sermon.
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