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The direction and increase of the wind had made it necessary to keep the vessel still further to sea on their return than in going, that they might clear without risk the windy, sousing, thwacking, basting, scourging Jack Ketch of a corner called Old-Harry Point, which lay about halfway along their track, and stood, with its detached posts and stumps of white rock, like a skeleton's lower jaw, grinning at British navigation.
The master warmed beneath his copper-coloured rind. 'O no, miss; that one you saw was a cutter a smaller boat altogether, he replied. 'Built on the sliding-keel principle, you understand, miss and red below her water-line, if you noticed. This is Lord Mountclere's yacht the Fawn. You might have seen her re'ching in round Old-Harry Rock this morning afore we started. 'Lord Mountclere's?
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