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Under Wellington’s Command

CHAPTER 6: Afloat
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I will bring your meals in to you, and let you know what is doing in the town; but I shall not come in oftener than I can help.

I shall leave the doors open, as usual." They took their places in the hole, and the fisherman piled sails and nets over the opening.

There was no occasion to leave any apertures for air, for the shed was roughly built, and there were plenty of openings between the planks of which it was constructed.
They had, before he came in, divested themselves of their uniforms; and these the fisherman put into a kit bag and carried indoors; where his wife at once proceeded to cut them up, and thrust the pieces into the fire.
"It is a pity," she said regretfully, "but it would never do to leave them about.

Think what a waistcoat I could have made for you, Jules, out of this scarlet cloth.

With the gold buttons it would have been superb, and it would have been the envy of the quarter; but it would never do." "I should think not, Marie.


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