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IT SEEMED to Captain Sneed that there was little excuse for his sometime subordinate taking the girl in his arms unless he was properly engaged to her; for Mr Sneed was a stickler for the proprieties, and though during his life he had appeared a score of times in the role of rescuer, he had never felt it necessary either to embrace (he called it 'cuddle' vulgarly) or to hold the hand of the rescued.
-"Don't tell me now," said Dick. "We'll get you some food. Poor child. You must be famished!"