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Then he had another good look all round, and presently I see him put his hand up to his eyes and stand looking away down to leeward. `Do you see anythink, sir? says I. And he says still with his hand up shadin' his eyes `I don't know, Chips, says he, `but I'm most certain, says he, `that one of them boats is thereaway, pointin' with his finger away down to leeward. `It's too dark and thick down there to see werry distinctly, he says, `but every now and then I keeps fancyin' I can see a small dark spot like a boat's sail showin' up in the middle of the haze, says he.
Blue eyes 'nd har that war the color which ware 'twixt a brown and a flaxen, with er blush rose shadin'; a clear-cut face like that of a Greek stater; dainty form 'nd limbs; the roundest arms yo' ever seen 'nd a hand like Aferdites. I noticed, too axidentally in course, that ther thick brogans on her feet were little 'nd shapely ef ther war thick brogans. But, finest of all war her complexion.
An' he went to work a-practicin' 'air-dyes the very next day, beginnin' on some white rabbits he had, an' then he drored all Rip's markin's on t' back of a white Commissariat bullock, so as to get his 'and in an' be sure of his colors; shadin' off brown into black as nateral as life.
Maybe so; but where they find back-number hats like that is beyond me. Then there was the buff-cochin spats and the wide ribbon to his eyeglasses. Beyond that I don't know as there was anything real freaky about him. A rich-colored old gent he is, the pink in his cheeks shadin' off into a deep mahogany tint back of his ears, makin' his frosted hair and mustache stand out some prominent.
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