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Outward Bound

CHAPTER X
9/20

There is plenty of wine in the medical stores.

It was a good joke for the parson to suppose I was drunk." "Perhaps you were," suggested Wilton.
"I felt good; but I was as sober as I am now." "The drink I took went into my head, and I felt as though I was going up in a ballon." "That was because you are not used to the article.

It waked me up a little, but I knew what I was about." "I think you were a confounded fool to do what you did." "Wilton, I'm not going to live in the steerage--you may take my word for it.

I've been an officer too long to come down to that.

If we don't succeed in making a chain, I shall quit the concern the first time I put my foot on shore in Ireland." "What do you mean by making a chain ?" asked Wilton, eagerly.
"A chain is strong." "Well; what of it ?" "It is composed of many links.


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