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At the Stairs where we had taken him abroad, and ever since, I had

looked warily for any token of our being suspected I had seen none We

certainly had not been, and at that time as certainly ere not either

attended or followed by any boat If we had been waited on by any boat,

I should have run in to shore, and have obliged her to go on, or to

make her purpose evident But we held our oithout any appearance of

molestation

He had his boat-cloak on him, and looked, as I have said, a natural part

of the scene It was remarkable (but perhaps the wretched life he had

led accounted for it) that he was the least anxious of any of us He

was not indifferent, for he told entlen country; he was not

disposed to be passive or resigned, as I understood it; but he had no

notion of er half way When it came upon him, he confronted

it, but it must come before he troubled himself

"If you knowed, dear boy," he said to erbeen day by day