Old Mary
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by Louis Becke
Robert Eury and calling him _boncamarade_.
"Captain Glass put his own chief officer in charge of the _Britannia_(with Robert as his mate) and ordered him to proceed to Port Jackson andawait the arrival there of the _Centurion_ and her consort. We arrivedat our destination safely, and as soon as my story was known many kindpeople wanted to adopt me; but the agent of the _Britannia_ took meto his own home, where I lived for many happy years as a member of hisfamily. Robert Eury was then appointed mate of a vessel in the Chinatrade, but I saw him every year. Then when I was seventeen years of agehe asked me to marry him, and I did so gladly, for he was always presentin my thoughts when he was away, and I knew he loved me."