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Nothing is ever perfect, and she would have liked it better if Herbert Pryce's sister had not past all denying had more partners and a greater success than herself, and if Herbert Pryce himself had not been just a little casual and inattentive.
It was Mr Pryce's watch; but the skipper Captain Rainhill was also on deck; and together the pair assiduously promenaded the poop, to and fro, pausing for a moment to listen and peer anxiously into the thickness to windward every time that they reached the break of the poop at one end of their walk, and the stern grating at the other.
Pryce's work recalls the style of Octave Feuillet, by its clearness, conciseness, its literary reserve. Athenaeum. MRS. WATSON. THIS MAN'S DOMINION. By the Author of 'A High Little World. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s.
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