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"He's killed himself," she cried. "It's unfort'nate Stiggs done over again there goes another counterpane God pity his poor mother! it will be the ruin of my house. Has the poor lad a sister? Where's that girl? there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter, and tell him to paint me a sign, with "no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;" might as well kill both birds at once. Kill?
'Because the day'll come, and has been coming a long while, observed the other, bending low over his work, 'when to get half as much from that unfort'nate child of mine to get the trembling of a finger, or the waving of a hair would be to raise the dead. Florence softly put some money near his hand on the old boat, and left him.
'Aboard o' that there unfort'nate wessel, said the Captain, rising from his chair, and clenching his hand with prodigious energy and exultation, 'was a lad, a gallant lad as I've heerd tell that had loved, when he was a boy, to read and talk about brave actions in shipwrecks I've heerd him!
I allus said that these here frog-eatin' Frenchmen wan't to be trusted; and here, you see, I was right. I see about how it is. The poor, unfort'nate Parson's done for, an' I'm in for it, too, I s'pose." Claude turned, and gave Zac a look of indescribable distress. "There's some infernal villain at work, Zac," said he, "out of the common course, altogether. I'm arrested myself." "You?
There's hardly a capful of wind as blows but what some poor unfort'nate craft leaves her bones out there," with a jerk of the thumb over his shoulder to seaward, "and mostly with every wreck there's some lives lost. I say, mates, I s'pose there's somebody on the look-out?"
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