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Before he left, Captain Whitfield placed both hands on Manjiro's shoulders and said, "You are the man of the house now. " Manjiro took it to heart, attending to the farm with earnest effort.
At first, everything had seemed hollow, quiet, empty. Manjiro missed hearing the captain whistling as he strolled from barn to house, and his large laugh-nothing polite about it-ringing out from one of the fields. Mostly, he missed their evening talks on the porch.