Night Watches

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William Wymark Jacobs. Night Watches

BACK TO BACK

KEEPING WATCH

THE UNDERSTUDY

THE WEAKER VESSEL

STEPPING BACKWARDS

THE THREE SISTERS

THE UNKNOWN

THE VIGIL

EASY MONEY

HIS OTHER SELF

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Human natur’!” said the night-watchman, gazing fixedly at a pretty girl in a passing waterman’s skiff. “Human natur’!”

He sighed, and, striking a match, applied it to his pipe and sat smoking thoughtfully.

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“I got up first and ‘elped her up, and, arter both staring hard at the cook, wot didn’t seem to know ‘is place, we went down into the cabin. It was a comfortable little place, and arter she ‘ad poured me out a glass of ‘er father’s whisky, and filled my pipe for me, I wouldn’t ha’ changed places with a king. Even when the pipe wouldn’t draw I didn’t mind.

“‘May I write a letter?’ she ses, at last.

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