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You little know what is awaiting you!" On terra firma, he would never again have approached these men; but life on a transatlantic liner, with its inevitable promiscuousness, obliges forgetfulness.

The following day the Counsellor and his friends came in search of him, flattering his sensibilities by erasing every irritating memory.

He was a distinguished youth belonging to a wealthy family, and all of them had shops and business in his country.