236 246 In associating an officer of marines
with the sea-lieutenants in a case
having to do with a sailor, the Commander
perhaps deviated from general custom.
The sele He was prompted to thereto
by the circumstance that he took
that soldier to be a rather judicious 51 2
person, a man of some reading,
10 thoughtful, and not ^ wholly intellectually altogether unfitted
incapable of grappling with a
difficult case one unprecedented
in his prior experience. Yet even
as to him he was not without some
latent misgiving, for ^ withall he was an
extremely good-natured man, an
236 246 In associating an officer of marines
with the sea-lieutenants in a case
having to do with a sailor, the Commander
perhaps deviated from general custom.
The sele He was prompted to thereto
by the circumstance that he took
that soldier to be a rather judicious 51 2
person, a man of some reading,
10 thoughtful, and not ^ wholly intellectually altogether unfitted
incapable of grappling with a
difficult case one unprecedented
in his prior experience. Yet even
as to him he was not without some
latent misgiving, for ^ withall he was an
extremely good-natured man, an

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