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The Measure of a Man

CHAPTER I
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"I am straight for Edinburgh now.

I feel as if my holiday was over.

I heard the clack of the looms this morning.
They need me, I dare say.

I suppose we can be in Leith harbor by Saturday night, Captain ?" "It may be Sunday, sir, if this wind holds.

It is an east-windy west-windy coast, and between here and Edinburgh the wind doesn't know its own mind an hour at a time." "Well, then, say Sunday.


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