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CHAP. V.

CHARACTERS.

Ay imputé a honte plus que médiocre être vu spectateur ociéux de tant vaillans, disertz, et chevalereux personnaiges.

LADY CLARINDA (to the Captain.)

I declare the creature has been listening to all this rigmarole, instead of attending to me. Do you ever expect forgiveness? But now that they are all talking together, and you cannot make out a word they say, nor they hear a word that we say, I will describe the company to you. First, there is the old gentleman on my left hand, at the head of the table, who is now leaning the other way to talk to my brother. He is a