«There was a simplicity in the man which would have disarmed a touchiness even more youthful than mine. So when next day at tiffin he bent his head toward me and said that he had met my late Captain last evening, adding in an undertone: "He`s very sorry you left. He had never had a mate that suited him so well," I answered him earnestly, without any affectation, that I certainly hadn`t been so comfortable in any ship or with any commander in all my sea-going days.
-Well--then, he murmured.
-Haven`t you heard, Captain Giles, that I intend to go home?
-Yes, he said benevolently. "I have heard that sort of thing so often before.»
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