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enjoyed also a reputation of another sort. There was about his
gaudy, swaggering raffishness something that the women found
singularly alluring. That he should boast openly of his bonnes
fortunes did not seem strange to Captain Blood; what he might have
found strange was that there appeared to be some measure of
justification for these boasts.
It was current gossip that even Mademoiselle d'Ogeron, the Governor's
daughter, had been caught in the snare of his wild attractiveness,
and that Levasseur had gone the length of audacity of asking her
hand in marriage of her father. M. d'Ogeron had made him the only
possible answer. He had shown him the door. Levasseur had departed
in a rage, swearing that he would make mademoiselle his wife in the
teeth of all the fathers in Christendom, and that M. d'Ogeron should
bitterly rue the affront he had put upon him.
This was the man who now thrust himself upon Captain Blood with a
proposal of association, offering him not only his sword, but his
ship and the men who sailed in her.


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