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after the others had retired to their staterooms, watching the receding shores with hearts filled with emotion too deep for words.

"My wife, my life. O, we will walk this worldYoked in all exercise of noble end,And so through those dark gates across the wildThat no man knows.*******Lay thy sweet hands in mine and trust to me."