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LOVE AMONG THE WRECKAGE1
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When I came back I found that my share in the escape and death of my uncle had made me for a time a notorious and even popular character. For two weeks I was kept in London “facing the music,” as he would have said, and making things easy for my aunt, and I still marvel2 at the consideration with which the world treated me. For now it was open and manifest that I and my uncle were no more than specimens3 of a modern species of brigand4, wasting the savings5 of the public out of the sheer wantonness of enterprise. I think that in a way, his death produced a reaction in my favour and my flight, of which some particulars now appeared stuck in the popular imagination. It seemed a more daring and difficult feat6 than it was, and I couldn’t very well write to the papers to sustain my private estimate. There can be little doubt that men infinitely7 prefer the appearance of dash and enterprise to simple honesty. No one believed I was not an arch plotter in his financing. Yet they favoured me. I even got permission from the trustee to occupy my chalet for a fortnight while I cleared up the mass of papers, calculations, notes of work, drawings and the like, that I left in disorder8 when I started on that impulsive9 raid upon the Mordet quap heaps.
I was there alone. I got work for Cothope with the Ilchesters, for whom I now build these destroyers. They wanted him at once, and he was short of money, so I let him go and managed very philosophically10 by myself.
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wreckage
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cowardice
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diagnosis
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