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ruffian of old,’ said he. ‘He came out in the ship from Eng-
land with me, and tried to raise a mutiny on board. He was
the man who nearly murdered my wife. He has never been
out of irons—except then and when he escaped—for the last
eighteen years; and as he’s three life sentences, he’s like to
die in ‘em.’
A monstrous wretch and criminal, evidently, and yet I
feel a strange sympathy with this outcast.
