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Universal Dependencies - English - LinES

LanguageEnglish
ProjectLinES
Corpus Parttest
AnnotationAhrenberg, Lars
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As he gossiped and lounged the noise of the Remington stopped. His secretary came out from the low line of offices that huddled to the waterfront. There was an urgent call for him. Would he step inside at once? My father loved the sea and should have been an active seaman but there were more opportunities indoors for a bright boy who had a way about him. He compensated by wheedling his way onto the tugs, and because there was still an apprenticeship mentality about the Company, his oddity was tolerated. What harm could it do and wasn't all experience useful? Besides, he did it in his own time and it made him popular with the men. Meanwhile, in a maze of soggy sheets and copies of Woman's Weekly, my father speared my mother on his manhood. It was a shining morning, he was leaning on the harbourside rail, watching the cranes load the ships. The world poured through his fingers; spices, wine, tea, green bananas, coconuts, American golf clubs, blankets made of wool with satin hemmed round the edges.

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