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English

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Middle Aged (35-54)

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British (England - East Anglia, Cambridge, Hertfordshire) British (England - Liverpool, Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire) British (General)

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in the time before steamship Well, then, more frequently than now, stroll along the docks of any considerable seaport would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronze Mariners, Man of Wars men or merchant sailors in holiday attire on liberty. In certain instances, they would flank or like a bodyguard, quite surround some superior figure of their own class, moving along with them like elder, barren among the lesser lights of his constellation. That signal object was the handsome sailor of the less prosaic time alike of the military and merchant navies was no perceptible trace of the vainglorious about him. Rather, with the offhand, unaffected nous of natural reality, he seemed to accept the spontaneous homage of his shipmates, a somewhat remarkable instance for Cursed to Me in Liverpool. Now, half a century ago, I saw under the shadow of the great dingy street wall of princes, dog on obstruction, long since removed a common sailor so intensely black that he must needs have been a native African of unadulterated blood of Sam, a symmetric figure much above the average height. The two ends of a *** silk handkerchief, thrown loose about the neck, danced upon the displaced ebony or his chest, and his ears were big hoops of gold in a Scotch highland bonnet with a tartan band set off his shapely head. It was hot noon in July, and his face lustrous, was perspiration beamed with barbaric good humour. In jovial Sally's right and left his white teeth flashing into, he frolicked along the centre of a company of his shipmates. These were made up of such an assortment of tribes in complexion. ZZZZ would have well fitted them to be marched up by an accuracy excludes before the bar of the first French assemblies, representatives of the human race at each spontaneous tribute rendered by the wayfarers to this black Paige out of a fellow attribute of a pause and stare and less frequent and exclamation. The motley retinue show that they took that sort of pride in the evoke her off it, which the Assyrian priest outta showed for their grand sculptured bull. When the faithful prostrated themselves