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Frank Rignold too was a son of Bridgeport, and the sea which ran in that blood for generations bade him in manhood to rise and follow it. He had gone into the engine-room, and at thirty was the chief engineer of a cargo boat running to South American ports. He was a fine-looking man with earnest grey eyes; a reader, a student, an observer; self-taught in Spanish, Latin, and French; a grave, quiet gentlemanly man, whose rare smile seemed to light his whole face, and who in his voyages South had caught something of Spanish grace and courtliness. He returned as regularly to Bridgeport as his ship did to New York; and when he stepped off the train his eager steps took him first to the Fenacres' house, his hands never empty of some little present for his sweetheart. ... Read more

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""It'sjollytogetyouoffbyyourself,""Isaidaswewandered away from the rest of the party.""Thenyouarenotafraidofanengagedgirl,""sheobserved ""Everybody else seems to be.""""Iammadeofsternerstuff,""Isaid.""Besides,Iamdying to know all about it.""""All about what?""""What you found to like in Gerard Malcolm, and whatGerard Malcolm found to like in you, and what he saidand what you said and what the Englishman said, andhow it all happened generally.""""What you want to know would fill a book.""""You speak as if you mean it to be a sealed one."" ... Read more