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This was a pretty astonishing request, and for a few seconds I gazed blankly at the girl.
"Good Heavens!" I said, "she must be mad to think of such a thing! And I should be as equally mad to even entertain the idea of taking her with me in a small boat on a voyage of more than a thousand miles."