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The Sea-Wolf

CHAPTER XXVII
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When she had slipped this on over her head, I exchanged the boy's cap she wore for a man's cap, large enough to cover her hair, and, when the flap was turned down, to completely cover her neck and ears.

The effect was charming.

Her face was of the sort that cannot but look well under all circumstances.

Nothing could destroy its exquisite oval, its well-nigh classic lines, its delicately stencilled brows, its large brown eyes, clear-seeing and calm, gloriously calm.
A puff, slightly stronger than usual, struck us just then.

The boat was caught as it obliquely crossed the crest of a wave.


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