Subj : some reading
To   : All
From : Alexander Koryagin
Date : Tue Mar 05 2024 14:25:12

Hi, All!

In "Captain Blood" I read:
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"Put that rubbish under hatches until I call for it again," he roared, and shut the door.
Composing himself, he turned to the girl again with a deprecatory smile. But no smile answered him from her set face. She had seen her beloved hero's nature in curl-papers, as it were, and she found the spectacle disgusting and terrifying.
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So I read and try understand it:

She had seen her beloved hero's nature in curl-papers,
(what does the author mean?)

as it were,
(what is "it"?)  ;)

and she found the spectacle disgusting and terrifying.

Bye, All!
Alexander Koryagin

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