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'Who can lend me a coat? asked Captain Seedeybuck, examining the skirts of a much frayed invisible-green surtout. 'A coat! replied Captain Quod; 'I can lend you a Joinville, if that will do as well, the captain feeling his own extensive one as he spoke. 'Hardly, said Seedeybuck, turning about to ask Sir Harry.
He was a bachelor to the end of his days, the old cap'n was, but he used to entertain real handsome. I rec'lect one night they was a playin' after the wine was brought in, and he upset his glass all over Miss Martha Lorimer's invisible-green watered silk, and spoilt the better part of two breadths.
We even defended his personal appearance, praised the invisible-green coat which he wore on his back, and his gray vest, and solemn gold spectacles; and though he always felt remarkably slimy when we touched him, yet, as he would sit still and allow us to stroke his head and pat his back, we concluded his social feelings might be warm, notwithstanding a cold exterior.
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