Clapsaddle

His friend Captain Clapsaddle loved her too, and likewise Grafton, but it soon became evident that she would marry Captain Jack or nobody.

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Mr. Bordley, and many others, including our friend Captain Clapsaddle.

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Our dear friend Captain Clapsaddle was away when my grandfather fell sick, having been North for three months or more on some business known to few.

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But Captain Clapsaddle came to the wedding in the long drawing-room at the Hall and stood by Captain Jack when he was married, and kissed the bride heartily.

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Just then I caught a glimpse of Captain Clapsaddle on the skirts of the crowd, and with him Mr. Swain and some of the dissenting gentry.

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Now Captain Clapsaddle was one who carried his loves and his hatreds to the grave, and he had never liked Weld since the day, six years gone by, he had sent me into the Ship tavern.

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Captain Clapsaddle rode to the Hall, his horse covered with sweat, and the reluctant tidings of Captain Jack Carvel's death on his lips.

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'Twas all Mr. Washington could do to restrain Clapsaddle from booting his Reverence over the balustrade and down two runs of the stairs, the captain declaring he would do for every cur's son of the whelps.

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I knew at a glance it was Captain Clapsaddle, and guiltily wished myself at the Governor's.

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"And I'll have him to pay for his drunkenness," said Captain Clapsaddle, hotly.

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