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I quickly followed suit, and descending into the bar-room accosted the grinning landlord very pleasantly. I cherished no malice towards him, though he had been skylarking with me not a little in the matter of my bedfellow.
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[dropcap style=““]T[/dropcap]They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become quite at ease in manner, quite self-possessed in company. Though …
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The cabin entrance was locked within the hatches were all on, and lumbered with coils of rigging. Going forward to the forecastle, we found the slide of the scuttle open. Seeing a light, we went down, and found only an old rigger there, wrapped in a tattered pea-jacket.
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The wood was green as mosses of the Icy Glen the trees stood high and haughty, feeling their living sap the industrious earth beneath was as a weaver’s loom with a gorgeous carpet on it, whereof the ground-vine tendrils formed the warp.
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These reflections just here are occasioned by the circumstance that after we were all seated at the table, and I was preparing to hear some good stories about whaling; to my no small surprise, nearly every man maintained a profound silence.
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A curious sight these bashful bears, these timid warrior whalemen the bar-room was now full of the boarders. Harpooneers and ship keepers a brown and brawny.
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They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become quite at ease in manner, quite self-possessed in company. Though Ledyard, the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the Scotch one of all men, they possessed the least assurance in the parlor.
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There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs — commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right and left, the streets take you waterward. Its extreme downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed.
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That the street being very narrow, the house opposite commanded a plain view into the room, and observing more and more the indecorous figure.