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Well may these disappointed suitors, hurt by unfeeling indifference to their extensive losses, and worn with endless delay, cry out in bitterness of heart, “Give us back our ships!” But this cannot be done.
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Sumner empathizes with those who have suffered losses and expresses the impossibility of restoring what was lost.
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