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A Dream of the North Sea

CHAPTER I
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"Look here, Ferrier, you can't find one bigot in this ship's company, but we've all had a lot of experience, and we find that religion's your only blasting-powder to break up the ugly old rocks that we used to steer among.

We find that we must have a clear passage; we fix our charge.

Whoof! there you are; good sailing-room; bee-yootiful--oh! fahscinating." "I quite follow you, and I sympathize with you so far as I am concerned personally; but when Fullerton persuaded me to come out I only thought of the physical condition of your people, and that is why I asked for Mr.Blair's yacht so that I might have a genuine, fair show.

You see, I fear I am wanting in imagination, and the sight of physical pain touches me so directly, that I never can spare a very great deal of sympathy for that obscure sort of pain that I cannot see; I'm hand and glove with you, of course, and I shall go through with the affair to the finish; but you must doctor the souls, and let me attend to the bodies for the present." The speaker was a powerful, broad fellow, with a kind of military carriage; his tall forehead was crossed by soft lines of tranquil thought, and he had the unmistakable look of the true student.

Lewis Ferrier came south to Cambridge after he had done well at Edinburgh.


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