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Blaine to Stephen: "London is full of bumpkins at this time of the year; they stare about them like oxen."

p. 153: [The] nearby hamlets learnt that a pirate was moored in Polcombe cove, intending to ravish the countryside, carrying off the maidens to Barbary. At this the young women for some miles around hurried to the edge of the precipice, to view their ravishers, and perhaps to implore their mercy[.]