His Other Wife: A Novel — page 233: what you’re looking at

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A LAMB AND A WOLF, 225 CHAPTER XXIV. A LAMB AND A WOLF. Left alone in the cabin with Faith Hilary, the mate of the Madcap takes from his belt a small steel dirk, or poniard, which he makes a pretense of polishing with a scrap of flannel. He next draws a light revolver from his breast, and examines all the chambers, which have been freshly loaded. | The girl watches the performance with naive interest. She says to him: ‘‘Why do you carry such ugly-looking weapons on board your ship?” ‘‘Well, my dear, you see we sometimes fall in with pirates when we reach the Spanish ccast, and we get in the habit of carrying these trinkets. On sea and land they're good things to have handy.” He took up the glittering revolver from where he had laid it on the cloth of the table, and, handing it over to Faith, said: ‘Just feel of it—how light itis! You could slip it in your pocket and never know it was there; and, as to this little beauty,” taking up the dagger, ‘‘why, it could hide in the folds of your dress ever so easily. Do you know, GEomichboo “Si: (E(0) =}