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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

"Sir," he used to say, afterwards, "that was no mistake. It was a fatality. A misfortune, pure and simple, sir. And that poor fellow of mine was right in it —right in the middle of it! A fatality, if ever there was one—and to my mind he has never been the same man since."