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1  His stories were what frightened people worst of all.
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2  I began to be horribly frightened, but I kept my head, for all that.
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3  For that matter, anyone who was a comrade of the captain's was enough to frighten them to death.
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4  But of these, one was evidently more frightened than hurt, for he was on his feet again in a crack and instantly disappeared among the trees.
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5  I was very uneasy and alarmed, as you may fancy, and it rather added to my fears to observe that the stranger was certainly frightened himself.
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6  But my mother, frightened as she was, would not consent to take a fraction more than was due to her and was obstinately unwilling to be content with less.
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7  People were frightened at the time, but on looking back they rather liked it; it was a fine excitement in a quiet country life, and there was even a party of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a "true sea-dog" and a "real old salt" and such like names, and saying there was the sort of man that made England terrible at sea.
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