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They don't seem to have known the name of the ship..   Written by Graciela (10/11/2011 5:12 p.m.) in consequence of the missive, Dick redux, penned by Cheryl
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In each letter he had spoken well of his captain; but yet, so little were they in the habit of attending to such matters, so unobservant and incurious were they as to the names of men or ships, that it had made scarcely any impression at the time; and that Mrs. Musgrove should have been suddenly struck, this very day, with a recollection, of the name of Wentworth, as connected with her son, seemed one of those extraordinary bursts of mind which do sometimes occur.

They were not even interested in knowing the names of the ships in which their son served.


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