[Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookDombey and Son CHAPTER 17 4/16
No, Captain Cuttle, I won't.
If my Uncle thinks I could be glad to leave him, though I was going to be made Governor of all the Islands in the West Indies, that's enough.
I'm a fixture.' 'Wal'r, my lad,' said the Captain.
'Steady! Sol Gills, take an observation of your nevy. Following with his eyes the majestic action of the Captain's hook, the old man looked at Walter. 'Here is a certain craft,' said the Captain, with a magnificent sense of the allegory into which he was soaring, 'a-going to put out on a certain voyage.
What name is wrote upon that craft indelibly? Is it The Gay? or,' said the Captain, raising his voice as much as to say, observe the point of this, 'is it The Gills ?' 'Ned,' said the old man, drawing Walter to his side, and taking his arm tenderly through his, 'I know.
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