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Mr. Joseph P. Mangles, at his ease in a deck-chair on the broad Atlantic, was smoking a most excellent cigar. Mr. Mangles was a tall, thin man, who carried his head in the manner curtly known at a girls' school as "poking. " He was a clean-shaven man, with bony forehead, sunken cheeks, and an underhung mouth. His attitude towards the world was one of patient disgust. He had the air of pushing his way, chin first, doggedly through life. The weather had been bad, and was now moderating. But Mr. Mangles had not suffered from seasickness. He was a dry, hard person, who had suffered from nothing but chronic dyspepsia -- had suffered from it for fifty years or so.
"Fine weather," he said. "Women will be coming on deck -- hang the fine weather."