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Fred asked with the meekiness of his voice, "Bert, why are you mean?"
"Mean?" The old Pirate snarled, "I have never been mean in my life, I am
gentle like an lamb, an angel, I am regular patron saint." Then he
cursed, "You Puff, you want an story don't you?"
He nobbed what else can do on this island? He played with sand a bit with
his fingers. "How mean are you Bert?"
Bert gave him a wink, "My meaness began years ago, mate, years ago, when a
beautiful maiden name Oliva entered my life. I was young, nineteen years
old, I think. Oliva was not an ordinary beauty, her hair was deep black,
and her eyes were a pale green." He coughed a bit.
"Oliva was a Lady." He began to search his bag, perhaps for another
bottle, then suddenly he stopped. "Oliva's father, Sir Frederick would not
allow me to see her, he told her often I was too much a pauper. Oliva, she
in her own way loved me, she and I would sneaked away into the moon-light
air.......And"
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