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Manners Makyth Man Ship's Company, Part 12. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
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Title: Manners Makyth Man
Ship's Company, Part 12.
Author: W.W. Jacobs
Release Date: January 1, 2004 [EBook #10572]
Language: English
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BOOK 12
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MANNERS MAKYTH MAN
The night-watchman appeared to be out of sorts. His movements were even slower than usual, and, when he sat, the soap-box seemed to be unable to give satisfaction. His face bore an expression of deep melancholy, but a smouldering gleam in his eye betokened feelings deeply moved.
Play-acting I don't hold with,
he burst out, with sudden ferocity. Never did. I don't say I ain't been to a theayter once or twice in my life, but I always come away with the idea that anybody could act if they liked to try. It's a kid's game, a silly kid's game, dressing up and pretending to be somebody else.
He cut off a piece of tobacco and, stowing it in his left cheek, sat chewing, with his lack-lustre eyes fixed on the wharves across the river. The offensive antics of a lighterman in mid-stream, who nearly fell overboard in his efforts to attract his attention, he ignored.
I might ha' known it, too,
he said, after a long silence. "If I'd only stopped to think, instead o' being in such a hurry to do good to others, I should ha' been all right, and the pack o' monkey-faced
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