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They think the privateer’s life one of nothing but adventure, violence, evasion, and escape. But, between letters of marque, bills of lading, rosters, inventories, and plunder contracts, it involves, in fact, more paperwork than any thing else.

— David D. Levine Arabella and the Battle of Venus (2017)

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Wordlessly she gestured downward, to the hidden lower limbs which seemed to hold some unearthly power over men’s minds.

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How absurd, she thought, that the sight of a man’s naked breast should be more objectionable than to see him possibly blown to bits.

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Princes and Admirals, she thought, did not seem to be subject to the same rules as the rest of society.

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If only things were not as they are, she reflected, they would certainly be different.

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That they cannot see beyond that limited horizon is the fault of society.

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