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The Two Admirals

CHAPTER IX
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You may certainly be right, for it exceeds my knowledge to connect them with any thing else.
I wish, notwithstanding, he had not disowned this noble young lieutenant of ours! Is it quite certain the young man is a Virginian ?" "So I have always understood it, sir.

He has never been known in this part of England, until he was landed from a frigate in the roads, to be cured of a serious wound.

I think none of Sir Wycherly's allusions have the least reference to _him_." Sir Gervaise Oakes now joined his hands behind his back, and walked several times, quarter-deck fashion, to and fro, in the room.

At each turn, his eyes glanced towards the bed, and he ever found the gaze of the sick man anxiously fastened on himself.

This satisfied him that religion had nothing to do with his host's manifest desire to make himself understood; and his own trouble was greatly increased.


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