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Don Sebastian, gravely, returning with a tall and solemn
figure.
‘‘Let me remove my hat. Now, venerable priest, further
into the light, and hold the Holy Book before me that I may
touch it.
‘‘So help me Heaven, and on my honour the story I have
told ye, gentlemen, is in substance and its great items, true.
I know it to be true; it happened on this ball; I trod the ship;
I knew the crew; I have seen and talked with Steelkilt since
the death of Radney.’’
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