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But repressed vexation at his son's poor-spirited behavior found expression in his treatment of his daughter. I suppose I'm a poor-spirited creature, but that is how I feel. He larked with the midshipmen, played single-stick with the mates, ran up the shrouds like a boy, sang a comic song one night to the amusement of the whole party assembled over their grog after supper, and rendered himself so gay, lively, and amiable that even Captain Bragg, who thought there was nothing in his passenger, and considered he was a poor-spirited feller at first, was constrained to own that the Major was a reserved but well-informed and meritorious officer. |
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poor-spirited - lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful
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