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" Interrupting his narrative Marlow addressed me in his tone between grim jest and grim earnest: "Perhaps you didn't know that my character is upon the whole rather vindictive." "No, I didn't know," I said with a grin.

"That's rather unusual for a sailor.

They always seemed to me the least vindictive body of men in the world." "H'm! Simple souls," Marlow muttered moodily.