Sammendrag av The Gentleman, Chapter 15

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1. A disturbing memory surfaces as the boy finds himself kneeling on a dead man with blood on his hands.
2. He lowers the lugger’s main sail and cuts the jib sheet as a boat approaches from the sloop.
3. Reuben Boniface discovers Black Diamond’s death, and Kit suggests that Diamond and the other dead man kill each other.
4. The sailors reflect on death while Reuben mourns and Alf asks whether Diamond is truly dead.
5. A sailor pulls Diamond’s nose, opening his mouth, and Kit retrieves a cut-glass perfume bottle.

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Kit offers his understanding of the two deaths. His preceding uncertainty makes this an explanation he suspects, not an established account.

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