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The Crushed Flower and Other Stories

CHAPTER I
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What do you need a ship for ?" Haggart laughs good-naturedly and ironically: "She asks what a man needs a ship for.

You must be a fine set of people.
You don't know what a man needs a ship for! And you speak seriously?
If I had a ship I would have rushed toward the sun.

And it would not matter how it sets its golden sails, I would overtake it with my black sails.
And I would force it to outline my shadow on the deck of my ship.

And I would put my foot upon it this way!" He stamps his foot firmly.

Then Mariet asks, cautiously: "Did you say with black sails ?" "That's what I said.


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