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aboard La Belle Estelle rather than hurry away
Thus far, however, everything seemed to be going admirably, and I told myself that all I had to do was to keep my nerve and neither say nor do anything to excite suspicion; indeed it was this consideration that caused me to hang about aboard La Belle Estelle rather than hurry away ashore again as soon as I had delivered my message.
— from A Middy of the Slave Squadron: A West African Story by Harry Collingwood

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