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A Dream of the North Sea

CHAPTER V
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Look at that smack away on our port bow.

I'll be bound one or two are hurt in some way there.

That's one of 120 sail that we saw; multiply 120 by 20, and then you have the number of vessels that we must attend under this crackbrained scheme of ours.

All the ledger and daybook men say we are crackbrained.

Now, if we can go on doing just a little with our ordinary dispensaries, is it wise to risk playing at magnificence?
You see I am taking the side of Mr.Commonsense against my own ideas." "I certainly think you may succeed," said Miss Dearsley.
"So do I; and now you see my point.


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