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And no one saw him fall overboard but yourself.” The vessel was going at thirteen knots, the night being pitch dark, and a heavy sea running. “The story our poor friend told me was something very different. “I don’t know about that, Mr Claverton,” answered the latter. The other man is more than twice his age, and looks what he is-every inch the comfortable, well-preserved family solicitor.

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It is the countenance of one who has seen a good deal of the world, and knows thoroughly well how to take care of himself.

His face, which is a handsome and a refined one, wears a look of firmness, not unmixed with recklessness. The speaker is a man of about thirty to all appearance. If I hadn’t gone in, the nearest Jack Tar would have, and have thought nothing of it nor do I. The weather was hot, and the swim did me good. I thought poor Spalding might have left me some trifle to remember him by-his pet breechloader, or something of the kind but, candidly, I never expected anything like this!” At least I won’t say that, exactly but nothing like to such an extent. “You hardly expected to be remembered, then?” said the latter. The only other occupant of the room paused and laid down the document from which he had been reading. He to whom this announcement was made could not repress a start of surprise. Coll Pres (90): Possibly College Presidium, the ruling body of the college (?) 29.“To my valued friend, Arthur Claverton, I bequeath the sum of nine thousand pounds.” atra cura (89): Latin: sordid concerns, dark anxieties 28. side (88): British slang: nerve, swagger 27. catamite (87): a boy kept by a pederast (pedophile) 26. Eddaic (78): related to the Norse Edda 23. sanative (77): having the power to cure 22. penal (76): subject to or worthy of punishment 21. knuttery (67): presumably related to the fashion of the early 1900’s (think of zoot suits). Munro, English author of short stories (1870-1916) 19. nonce (65): the present or particular time 18. farrago (62): medley, mixture, conglomeration 17. preternatural (60): Out of or beyond the normal course of nature. Rosicrucianism (59): An ancient mystic order devoted to the application of esoteric religious doctrine to modern life. Theosophy (59): Religious speculation dealing with the mystical apprehension of God, associated with various occult systems. Chorasmian (waste) (53): also Khorezmain, related to the land of what is now Greater Iran. public school (49): In Great Britain, a private boarding school for pupils of from 13 to 18 years of age for entry into a university or the public services. cantle (47): a piece or slice cut off something 11. Fabian (42): a society founded in Great Britain in 1884 to promote socialism. ergastulum (31): Latin a Roman workhouse for slaves or debtors 9. Belsen (24): A Nazi concentration camp 8. Sehnsucht (7): German a longing, a yearning, desire and nostalgia 6.

Its chief poetic exponents where Keats, Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth and Coleridge. It featured a break from Classicism and an emphasis on feeling, childhood, the gothic, the remote, the savage and the medieval. Romanticism (7): A literary and artistic movement which was in ascendance in Great Britain from 1800-1830. Stands for desire, love, and the metaphysical striving for the infinite. Blue Flower (7): From the German, “Blaue Blum,” Symbol of Romanticism. Phineas Finn (4): novel by Anthony Trollope and the name of the main character (pub. Reconteur (page 4)*: French one who recounts stories and anecdotes with skill. A Glossary of Unfamiliar Terms From Surprised by Joy by C.S.