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| "They're grand," said he; and then, as I was going, "Keep to the wall," he added; "there's nae bannisters. And in the present instance, all this was heightened by the sight of the two officers of the strange ship, leaning over the side, by the perpendicular ladder of nailed cleets there, and swinging towards him a pair of tastefully-ornamented man-ropes; for at first they did not seem to bethink them that a one-legged man must be too much of a cripple to use their sea bannisters. While the chambermaid was at her work, a solitary lady, loitering about the corridor of the second storey, was watching her over the bannisters. |
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