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He carried the servant-girl's box on his back as he strode home; but for all that, he was proud and full of weighty secrets as he had been the day he came home with that gold ring.... It was a grand time after that. For a long while, Inger could not do enough in the way of showing her husband how good and useful she could be.
Being desirous of showing the exuberance of our spirits, R , who had observed an old dame and her maid plying in a wherry round the cutter probably to take a nearer view of our beautiful craft and her adventurous crew, or, perhaps to breathe the morning air, I know not which ordered the two quarter swivels to be loaded, and watching his opportunity, when the cautious wherry came rather near, fired both of them right over the old lady's black bonnet, and sent the wad fizzing and smoking into the servant-girl's lap.
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