ā€œLord bless my soul and body!ā€ cried Mr. Inspector. ā€œTalk of trades, Miss Abbey, and the way they set their marks on men,ā€ (a subject which nobody had approached); ā€œwho wouldn’t know your brother to be a Steward! There’s a bright and ready twinkle in his eye, there’s a neatness in his action, there’s a smartness in his figure, there’s an air of reliability about him in case you wanted a basin, which points out the steward! And Mr. Kibble; ain’t he passenger, all over? While there’s that mercantile cut upon him which would make you happy to give him credit for five hundred pound, don’t you see the salt sea shining on him too?ā€

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