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| 23 | 247 | For View more quotes about example">example, when I had put women at my own prow, from time to time, I had usually let them behave or appear in any fashion they pleased. |
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| 23 | 244 | "I see," she said. |
| 23 | 245 | The chain trembled, moving in the staple welded to the collar. |
| 23 | 246 | Usually, as far as I knew, the placing of women at the prow was not attended by such considerations. |
| 23 | 247 | For example, when I had put women at my own prow, from time to time, I had usually let them behave or appear in any fashion they pleased. |
| 23 | 248 | It was enough for me, and, I suppose, for them, that they were at the prow, displayed and helpless. |
| 23 | 249 | Still, it was an intriguing idea, instructing them in the behavior they were to exhibit at the prow. |
| 23 | 250 | In such a manner one might, rather as if decorating the ship in a certain way, say, with bunting and garlands, exercise more control over the impression one created in entering the harbor. |