Youth: A Narrative (Classic Reprint)

This could have occurred nowhere but in England, vn where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak the nJ Msea entering into the life of most men, and the men (knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning. We were sitting round a mahogany table that reflected the bottle, the claret-glasses, and our faces as we leaned on our elbows. There was a director of companies, an accountant, a lawyer, Marlow, and myself. The director had been a Conway boy, the accountant had served four years at sea, the lawyer a fine crusted Tory, High Churchman, the best of old fellows, the soul of honour had been chief officer in the P. O. service in the good old days when mail-boats were square-rigged at least on two masts, and used to come down the China Sea before a fair monsoon with stun -sails set alow and aloft. We all began life in the merchant service.
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