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Interrupting his narrative Marlow addressed rim earnest: "Perhaps you didn't know that my character is upon the whole rather

vindictive"

"No, I didn't know," I said with a grin "That's rather unusual for a

sailor They always seemed to me the least vindictive body of men in the

world"

"H'm! Simple souls," Marlow muttered moodily "Want of opportunity The

world leaves them alone for the most part For myself it's towards women

that I feel vindictive mostly, in my small way I admit that it is

sreat Mainly I

resent that pretence of winding us round their dear little fingers, as of

right Not that the result ever aenerally There are so

very few momentous opportunities It is the assumption that each of us

is a co--in a

sh I were

breathing fire and s