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As for Captain Kirkup, he did not appear till the last moment, when he proved to be a burly mariner, bearded like Abou Ben Adhem.
Presently he hailed Wicks. "You're a kind of company, ain't you, Captain Kirkup?" he inquired. "Yes, we're all on board on lays," was the reply. "Well, then, you won't mind if I ask the lot of you down to tea in the cabin?" asked Trent.
There was a magical old man in Florence named Kirkup, an Englishman, though he had dwelt abroad so many years that he seemed more Florentine than the Florentines themselves. He had known, in his youth, Byron, Shelley, Hunt, and Edward Trelawney. After that famous group was disparted, Kirkup, having an income sufficient for his needs, came to Florence and settled there.
"I'll see what the name is on my new certificate, and that'll be good enough for me. If I can't get one to buy, though I never heard of such a thing, there's old Kirkup, he's turned some sort of farmer down Bondi way; he'll hire me his." "You seemed to speak as if you had a ship in view," said Carthew. "So I have, too," said Captain Wicks, "and a beauty.
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