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Commitment

1 passage in the novel carry this mark, in the order they appear.

‘I’ll sail with ye,’—he says,—‘the passage money how much is that?—I’ll pay now.’ For it is particularly written, shipmates, as if it were a thing not to be overlooked in this history, ‘that he paid the fare thereof’ ere the craft did sail. And taken with the context, this is full of meaning.

Chapter 9, The Sermon · verse 17

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