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Her constant gratitude and friendship for the Jernams suffered no diminution as time went on. The difference in their social position made no difference to her; and no more frequent or more welcome guests were seen at Raynham than Captain Duncombe, his daughter and son-in- law, and honest Joyce Harker.
But the rough sailors were kinder than the drunken father had been, and the two lads fared pretty well. Thus began the career of the two Jernams. Through all changes of fortune, the brothers had clung to each other.
Valentine had supplied the place of both parents to his brother George, the place of the mother, who lay buried in Allanbay churchyard; the place of the father, who had sunk into a living death of drunkenness and profligacy. They were not peasant-born these Jernams.
Captain Joe Duncombe and the protege of the Jernams had nothing whatever in common in character, disposition, or manners, and the distance in the social scale which divided the prosperous merchant-captain from the poor, though clever, dependent, was considerable, even according to the not very strict standard of manners observed by persons of their respective classes.
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