The things we do!

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first mate pulled out a penknife and arranged his nails. The doctor and
Mr. Binnie talked of the progress of medicine. Binnie had walked the
hospitals of Edinburgh before getting his civil appointment to India. The
three gentlemen from Hanover Square and the Colonel had plenty to say
about Tom Smith of the Cavalry, and Harry Hall of the Engineers: how
Topham was going to marry poor little Bob Wallis's widow; how many lakhs
Barber had brought home, and the like. The tall grey-headed Englishman,
who had been in the East too, in the King's service, joined for a while
in this conversation, but presently left it, and came and talked with
Clive; "I knew your father in India," said the gentleman to the lad;
"there is not a more gallant or respected officer in that service. I have
a boy too, a stepson, who has just gone into the army; he is older than
you, he was born at the end of the Waterloo year, and so was a great
friend of his and mine, who was at your school, Sir Rawdon Crawley.


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