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I was a free man when I went out of the Court; but I was a beggar -- I, / Captain Stubbs, of the bold North Bungays, did not know where I could / get a bed, or a dinner.
As I was marching sadly down Portugal Street, I felt a hand on my / shoulder and a rough voice which I knew well.