Jacob Faithful
By Frederick Marryat
9 Oct, 2019
Brief Extract: My father was a puffy, round-bellied, long-armed, little man, admirably calculated for his station in, or rather out of, society. He could manage a lighter as well as anybody, but he could do no more. He had been brought up to it from
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Brief Extract: My father was a puffy, round-bellied, long-armed, little man, admirably calculated for his station in, or rather out of, society. He could manage a lighter as well as anybody, but he could do no more. He had been brought up to it from his infancy. He went on shore for my mother and came on board again—the only remarkable event in his life. Less