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I
had been told that he regarded me as a rank outsider. He raised not
only his eyes, but his eyebrows as well, at the sound I made
pulling back my chair.
Captain Giles was at the head of the table. I exchanged a few
words of greeting with him and sat down on his left. Stout and
pale, with a great shiny dome of a bald forehead and prominent
brown eyes, he might have been anything but a seaman. You would not
have been surprised to learn that he was an architect. To me (I
know how absurd it is) to me he looked like a churchwarden. He had
the appearance of a man from whom you would expect sound advice,
moral sentiments, with perhaps a platitude or two thrown in on
occasion, not from a desire to dazzle, but from honest
conviction.
Though very well known and appreciated in the shipping world, he
had no regular employment. He did not want it. He had his own
peculiar position. He was an expert
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