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278 gesture, and burst into a boyish exclamation of hilarity and delight.

"Whist, Captain!" said Ned, checking his own spirits with a mock air of gravity, "let us conduct ourselves like gentlemen; it is only your low fellows who get into such confoundedly high spirits; men of the world like us, should do every thing as if their hearts were broken."

"Melancholy ever cronies with sublimity, and