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"'The more salvage to me, then, I said. 'I'll make shift solo. "Says one dock-rat, at this: 'D' ye think she's safe? "'I'll guarantee ye nothing, I said, 'except maybe a hammerin' for keepin' me this long. "Then he sings out: 'There's no more than one lifebelt, an' they canna find it, or I'd come.
And yet now Dan's tacit aloofness piqued her. She admitted she did not understand him at all. Here was a man, a tugboat captain, of course a product of the water front; primarily, no doubt, a dock-rat, and yet a man who had not tangled himself in the use of his forks, who spoke in even, well-modulated tones, and looked like a gentleman. Miss Howland was not snobbish in these thoughts.
'Thin I knew that man for the Dublin dock-rat he was wan av the bhoys that made the lessee av Silver's Theatre gray before his time wid tearin' out the bowils av the benches an' t'rowin' thim into the pit. So I passed the wurrud that I knew when I was in the Tyrone an' we lay in Dublin. "I don't know who 'twas," I whispers, "an' I don't care, but anyways I'll knock the face av you, Tim Kelly."
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