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"I ain't done for yet, an' when I is I reckon I'll know it as soon as anybody lessen it's yo' pa, who's got powerful sharp eyes at seein' the failin's of other people an' powerful dull ones when it comes to recognisin' his own." Then she set about preparing breakfast, and Nicholas flung himself into a chair on the porch.
Some of 'em hadn't met for seven and ten year, and sich a shakin' o' hands there was, an' recognisin' of each other! I thought we'd never get the service begun. Many of 'em was Christian men, and felt like brothers, you see." "Did many of the masters an' mates come to the services in those days?" asked Joe Davidson. "Ay, a-many of 'em.
The Commander, recognisin' in me a man of agility, cautioned me to be a father an' mother to Mr. Carteret-Jones." "Didn't he know you?" I asked, thinking for the moment that there could be no duplicates of Emanuel Pyecroft in the Navy. "What's a torpedo-gunner more or less to a full lootenant commanding six thirty-knot destroyers for the first time?
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