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Mrs. Falchion, Volume 1.

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The narrator, a young physician taking a ship's surgeon post to travel, recounts a sea voyage marked by mechanical failures, fires and a growing cast of passengers whose intersecting fortunes drive a study of character. Episodic incidents — arrival at colonial ports, shipboard social life, a mysterious woman and a shabby man whose presence unsettles others, storms and a duel — provide the action that frames psychological observation. The narrative alternates objective episodes of adventure with introspective analysis of motives and faults, exploring themes of destiny, social pretence, and moral ambiguity while balancing romantic incident and realist character study.

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Aboriginal dispersion
And even envy praised her
Audience that patronisingly listens outside a room or window
But to pay the vulgar penalty of prison—ah!
Death is a magnificent ally; it untangles knots
Engrossed more, it seemed, in the malady than in the man
For a man having work to do, woman, lovely woman, is rocks
It is difficult to be idle—and important too
It is hard to be polite to cowards
Jews everywhere treated worse than the Chinaman
One always buys back the past at a tremendous price
One doesn't choose to worry
Saying uncomfortable things in a deferential way
Slow-footed hours wandered by, leaving apathy in their train
That anxious civility which beauty can inspire
The ravings of a sick man are not always counted ravings
The sea is a great breeder of friendship
The tender care of a woman—than many pharmacopoeias
Vanity; and from this much feminine hatred springs
Very severe on those who do not pretend to be good
What is gone is gone Graves are idolatry
Who get a morbid enjoyment out of misery