‘The stowaway? Oh, yes, that half-starved fellow this morning. Well, now, since he is so very eager to go to sea, and since, after all, he is at sea, I think you may enter him as a supernumerary landsman. God knows what romantic notions he has in his head . . . the lower deck will soon knock them out again.’ ‘He is probably running from a wench, sir. Twenty young fellows in the starboard watch are in the same case.’ ‘It is often those slim young men who procreate so freely,’ said Stephen, ‘whereas your village champion, for all his parading like the parish bull, in fact remains comparatively
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