Naomi: “Then why did you stay?”
Jack: “Because I hadn’t the pluck to run away.”
Naomi: “Did they pay you much for fighting?”
Jack: “No, but then I didn’t do much fighting, so that I was even with them in that respect!”
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Naomi: ... “Are you fond of reading?”
Jack: “Ya-as. Middling.”
Naomi: “Did you ever read Othello?”
Jack: “Ya-as. But I don’t think it nice reading for young ladies.”
Naomi: “Othello told Desdemona of the dangers he had passed and the battles he had won.”