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His companion, a slight, stooped man, the sallowness of whose face was accentuated by a short black moustache, who had remained almost silent from the time he had entered the house, looked up at these words and smiled. "We owe that boy and this gentleman our lives," he said briefly. "He must be prosecuted before they can hang him," said Captain Acton, whilst the Admiral's regard was fastened upon Lucy's face with such tokens of affectionate gratitude and surprise which rose to a passion of delight as made the worthy, poor old man's jolly, weather-scored, truly British countenance moving to behold. "And who is to prosecute him? I alone am the sufferer. I alone can prosecute. Am I likely to do so? Am I the man to bring my friend's son to the gallows?" "He left the deck when the frigate fired a gun," replied Mr Eagle, "and I haven't seen him since.".
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"I should like," said the Admiral, "to have met Nelson. In all my going a-fishing I never fell in his way." "Know him?" Hinter held out his hand. "Well, good night, Miss Erie," he said. "I'll be up again soon, with some books for you." "You're right, he is. Well, what's he goin' to do now? He can't work, kin he?".
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