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   Hi, All!   
      
   In "Captain Blood" I read:   
   ------   
   ...   
   "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.   
   ------   
      
   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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