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But at the moment that he was valiantly daring any one to tell him whether there was anything better worth doing 'than fooling among boats, Edward Fitzgerald, all unconscious and careless of literary fashions, was giving still more practical expression to the physical faith that was in him, by going shares in a Lowestoft herring-lugger, and throwing his heart as well as his money into the fortunes of its noble skipper 'Posh. A literary man par excellence, Mr.
So much on laying the keel, so much when the deck was on, etc., etc., and FitzGerald took the greatest interest in her building. "I really think of having a Herring-lugger I am building named Marian Halcombe. . . . Yes, a Herring-lugger; which is to pay for the money she costs unless she goes to the Bottom: and which meanwhile amuses me to consult about with my Sea-folks.
The letter begins with a reference to M. Garcin de Tassy and his "annual oration," and continues with some passages of great interest concerning the Rubaiyat and Attar's "Birds." "I have come here to wind up accounts for our Herring-lugger: much against us as the season has been a bad one.
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