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The Sea-Hawk

CHAPTER VIII
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He thrust them under Sir Oliver's nose.

"Haply," said he, "ye'll be acquainted with some of them.

They was given me to make up the sum since your brother had not the whole two hundred pound in coin.

Take a look at them." Sir Oliver recognized a ring and a long pear-shaped pearl earring that had been his brother's; he recognized a medallion that he himself had given Lionel two years ago; and so, one by one, he recognized every trinket placed before him.
His head drooped to his breast, and he sat thus awhile like a man stunned.

"My God!" he groaned miserably, at last.


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