[The Tides of Barnegat by F. Hopkinson Smith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Tides of Barnegat CHAPTER V 12/18
"If he don't there'll be trouble, for you and him and everybody.
It's me that's crazy, not him." "Stop it!" roared the captain, straightening up, the glasses on the sideboard ringing with his sudden lurch.
"My boy keep away from the daughter of Morton Cobden, who was the best friend I ever had and to whom I owe more than any man who ever lived! And this is what you traipsed up here to tell me, is it, you mollycoddle ?" Again Martha edged nearer; her body bent forward, her eyes searching his--so close that she could have touched his face with her knuckles. "Hold your tongue and stop talkin' foolishness," she blazed out, the courage of a tigress fighting for her young in her eyes, the same bold ring in her voice.
"I tell ye, Captain Holt, it's got to stop short off, and NOW! I know men; have known 'em to my misery.
I know when they're honest and I know when they ain't, and so do you, if you would open your eyes.
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