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Mary Anerley

CHAPTER XVII
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I should never understand such things.

But I find them wonderfully interesting.

You are not a native of this place, and knew nothing of Flamborough before you came here ?" Monument Joe gave a grunt at this, and a long squirt of tobacco juice.
"And don't want," he said.
"Of course, you are superior, in every way superior.

You find these people rough, and far inferior in manners.

But either, my good friend, you will re-open your tobacco-box, or else you will answer me a few short questions, which trespass in no way upon your duty to the king, or to his loyal smugglers." Old Joe looked up, with weather-beaten eyes, and saw that he had no fool to deal with, in spite of all soft palaver.


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