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| | IN THE year 1799, Captain Amasa Delano, of Duxbury, in Massachusetts, commanding a large sealer and general trader, lay ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Benito Cereno been a man of greater energy, misrule would hardly have come to the present pass. |
 | | Don Benito reviving, went on; but as this portion of the story was very brokenly delivered, the substance only will here be set down. |
 | | As he thus responded, Captain Delano again glanced at Don Benito, but the latter's eyes were averted; while abruptly and awkwardly shifting the subject, he made some peevish allusion to the calm, and then, without apology, once more, with his attendant, withdrew to the opposite bulwarks, where the whispering was resumed. |
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