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_It takes an engineer to dam a river: a mere man / may stem the tide of a child's crying, and if he can't / there is always the woman waiting; it's her job._
"Horrible! " thought Marcus as he made his way towards the house where lodged the girl and her mother, and he supposed her brothers and sisters. Supper? And shrimps for supper? The shrimps he had been asked to shrimp for? Why had Shan't got him into this difficulty?