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* MamaBear: You DON’T mess with the Lawson Peabody girls. The kidnapping staged at the beginning of ''In The Belly of the Bloodhound'' relied on Mistress Pimm being too sick to notice, and it DID NOT keep her down long.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She is STRICT, but NOT CRUEL. She looks after her students ferociously.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She is STRICT, but NOT CRUEL. She looks after her students ferociously.
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'''Mistress Pimm'''
The stern headmistress of the Lawson Peabody School For Young Girls.
*IronLady: The woman’s backbone might as well be pure steel.
The stern headmistress of the Lawson Peabody School For Young Girls.
*IronLady: The woman’s backbone might as well be pure steel.
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* BattleButler: Constantly [[GunsAkimbo dual-wielding]] [[WeaponOfChoice percussion cap pistols]].
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* BattleButler: Constantly [[GunsAkimbo dual-wielding]] [[WeaponOfChoice dual-wielding percussion cap pistols]].
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* [[AFatherToHisMen A Mother to Her Men]]: Very much Jacky's leadership style. Even when she's confined to the brig (which is fairly often) she thinks of her guards as "My Marines" and treats them as such. Foster mother to baby Jesse and later to Ravi.
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* [[AFatherToHisMen A Mother to Her Men]]: AFatherToHisMen: Very much Jacky's leadership style. Even when she's confined to the brig (which is fairly often) she thinks of her guards as "My Marines" and treats them as such. Foster mother to baby Jesse and later to Ravi.
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%% Doesn't explain what the reaction is. * Berserk Button Do '''NOT''' talk ill of Jacky in front of him. [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry It won't end well]].
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%% Doesn't explain what the reaction is. * Berserk Button BerserkButton Do '''NOT''' talk ill of Jacky in front of him. [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry It won't end well]].
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* SweetOnPollyOliver: Was he ever happy to find out Jacky was a girl.
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* FieldPromotion followed by YouAreInCommandNow
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* HandsomeLech
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* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: "Stand and Deliver!"
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* [[spoiler:FirstGirlWins]] [[spoiler:Sorry, Clemmie. Jacky got there first]]
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* [[spoiler:FirstGirlWins]] FirstGirlWins [[spoiler:Sorry, Clemmie. Jacky got there first]]
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* BlindMusician: Lost his sight in battle.
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* SurvivalMantra: "Happy puppy, happy puppy, happy puppy..."
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* BerserkButton Do '''NOT''' talk ill of Jacky in front of him. [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry It won't end well]].
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%% Doesn't explain what the reaction is. * BerserkButton Berserk Button Do '''NOT''' talk ill of Jacky in front of him. [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry It won't end well]].
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* CryCute: Her whole schtick.
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* [[spoiler:SkunkStripe]] [[spoiler:In ''My Bonny Light Horseman'', a scar across his scalp leaves him with this.]]
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* FoeYay: Clarissa's almost reflexive snake-and-mongoose relationship with Jackie takes on a new perspective when she runs away to New Orleans and shacks up with another of Jackie's failed suitors -- Mademoiselle DeBourbon
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* WouldHitAGirl: Though not as bad as Bliffil, as he prefers slaps to fisticuffs.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Though not as bad as Bliffil, as he prefers slaps to fisticuffs.
fisticuffs. He also enjoyed torturing Jacky for entertainment and burning her with a cigar, as well as beating his prostitutes in ''The Mark of the Golden Dragon''.
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* LargeHam: Part of his schtick.
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* LargeHam: Part of his schtick. As Jacky learns, sometimes a bit of roaring and playing up his own reputation can get him out of situations that might otherwise defeat him.
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* ActionGirl
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* ActionGirlActionGirl: Sailor, spy, soldier...Jacky rises to just about every occasion.
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** And "I am not shy in that regard." And "It's just that i wasn't raised up proper." Jacky has a lot of these.
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** And "I am not shy in that regard." And "It's just that i I wasn't raised up proper." Jacky has a lot of these.
** "I never was very brave." (Usually employed after Jacky has done nothing but feats of derring-do.)
** "I always feel better with a plan." (Usually employed after Jacky has come up with a seat-of-the-pants, harebrained scheme that's just crazy enough to work.)
** "I always feel better with a plan." (Usually employed after Jacky has come up with a seat-of-the-pants, harebrained scheme that's just crazy enough to work.)
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* LargeHam
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* LargeHam
LargeHam: Jacky *knows* she's a large ham and often plays up her caterwauling and/or feminine modesty in dangerous situations, so that people will back off just to shut her up.
*MasterOfDisguiseMasterOfDisguise: Passing herself off as a boy in the first book seems to have uncovered a talent for disguise. She does it once per book, at least.
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* SheCleansUpNicely: Jackie has noticeable fondness for pretty clothes whenever she's not being a WholesomeCrossdresser or a SweetPollyOliver.
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* SheCleansUpNicely: Jackie has a noticeable fondness for pretty clothes whenever she's not being a WholesomeCrossdresser or a SweetPollyOliver.SweetPollyOliver. While even she'll tell you she's not exactly beautiful, people find her blonde hair and sharp features appealing.
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* RichBitch
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* RichBitch
RichBitch: And not afraid to bring it up, along with her prestigious family background.
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* FirstGuyWins
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* FirstGuyWinsFirstGuyWins: He and Jacky fall in love in the first book and somehow manage to maintain their devotion right until the very end.
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* ChivalrousPervert
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* ChivalrousPervertChivalrousPervert: He steals a kiss from Jacky and tries to take things further, but backs off when she tells him she's in love with someone else.
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* ChivalrousPervertChivalrousPervert: While he absolutely will not shut up about how much of a good idea it is to sleep with him, he will not take advantage of a helpless or reluctant woman, as Jacky learns when he catches her at a vulnerable moment.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacterHistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on real-life Chinese pirate Zheng Yi Sao, who personally commanded a fleet of 24 ships and over 1400 pirates.
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* PirateGirl
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* PirateGirl
NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Make no mistake: Cheng Shih is a serious pirate who will not hesitate to sink a ship with all hands aboard, and has a fearsome reputation in the South China Seas because of it.
* PirateGirl: Cheng Shih is aged down from her real-life counterpart (who started marauding in her thirties) to be closer to teenage Jacky's age, though she's still around her early twenties--not quite a girl, but definitely a pirate.
* PirateGirl: Cheng Shih is aged down from her real-life counterpart (who started marauding in her thirties) to be closer to teenage Jacky's age, though she's still around her early twenties--not quite a girl, but definitely a pirate.
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* AmbiguouslyGay
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* AmbiguouslyGayAmbiguouslyGay: While never stated outright, there's a few references to a personal "secret" that could make things difficult for him, a few "companions" or close male friends in his past, and Jacky's trust in allowing him to hang around even in intimate or compromising moments coupled with Higgins's complete neutrality toward her charms.
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* ServileSnarker: Sometimes.
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* ServileSnarker: Sometimes.
When you hang out with Jacky, sometimes you have to be.
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* PapaWolfPapaWolf: For not only his especial ship's boy Jacky, but for the rest of the ship's boys.
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* FieryRedheadFieryRedhead: Classic Irish beauty with the temper to go along with the hair.
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* StreetUrchinStreetUrchin: How Jacky finds him. Even when he's off the streets, he still can't help but revert to the meek, timid behavior he used to survive.
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* [[AFatherToHisMen A Father To His Gang]]
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* [[AFatherToHisMen A Father To His Gang]]
Gang]]: Unlike many other gang leaders on the London streets, Charlie makes a point of looking after his young charges and protecting them from worse dangers.
*FieryRedhead
FieryRedhead: Part of the reason he earns the name "Rooster" is his floppy red hair and his wicked temper.
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* GentleGiant: Though still technically a child, Hugh is over six feet tall and strapping, but is sweet, slow-witted, and slow to rile.
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* TheBully
TheBully: Bullies not only the other middies but the young ship's boys.
*WouldHitAGirl
WouldHitAGirl: Albeit unwittingly, since he doesn't ''know'' Jacky's a girl. But he's still willing to beat up on someone much smaller than he is.
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''The'' Mike Fink: Six and a half feet and fully three hundred and fifty pounds of pure bluster. The biggest, baddest, roughest, toughest keelboat man on the Mississsippi, to hear him tell it, and he may not be wrong.
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''The'' Mike Fink: Six and a half feet and fully three hundred and fifty pounds of pure bluster. The biggest, baddest, roughest, toughest keelboat man on the Mississsippi, Mississippi, to hear him tell it, and he may not be wrong.
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* PublicDomainCharacter
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LargeHam: Part of his schtick.
*PublicDomainCharacterPublicDomainCharacter: A real person who was legendary in his own time as a river boatman and brawler on the Mississippi. While no one's quite sure if he did half the things he was alleged to have done, his presentation in the book is pretty accurate to the way he's known in folklore.
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* AttemptedRape
AttemptedRape: Once he discovers Jacky's female, he wastes no time taking her for his own use. [[spoiler:She only escapes his bed due to a well-timed heart attack.]]
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* BestServedCold: but only in the form of RestrainedRevenge, like forcing Davy to learn how to swim in the seventh book by tying him to a rope and throwing him overboard in revenge for slights from the first book. Or taking revenge on the surviving crewmen of the Bloodhound by winning their loyalty four books after she'd marooned them at sea.
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* BestServedCold: but But only in the form of RestrainedRevenge, like forcing Davy to learn how to swim in the seventh book by tying him to a rope and throwing him overboard in revenge for slights from the first book. Or taking revenge on the surviving crewmen of the Bloodhound by winning their loyalty four books after she'd marooned them at sea.
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* CowardlyLion: and isn't afraid to admit it, at least to herself. Jaimy recognizes it too, though, and mentions it in one of his reports.
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* CowardlyLion: and And isn't afraid to admit it, at least to herself. Jaimy recognizes it too, though, and mentions it in one of his reports.
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* GoodAngelBadAngel Starting in ''Rapture of the Deep'' "Little Mary" starts showing up.... "Jaaaaackyyyyy... TREASURE, JACKY!"
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* GoodAngelBadAngel GoodAngelBadAngel: Starting in ''Rapture of the Deep'' "Little Mary" starts showing up.... "Jaaaaackyyyyy... TREASURE, JACKY!"
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* ImprobableAge: from ship's boy to midshipman to fine lady to pirate to soldier to spy to convict to merchant all by the age of 18.
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* ImprobableAge: from From ship's boy to midshipman to fine lady to pirate to soldier to spy to convict to merchant all by the age of 18.
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* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds Beginning in ''Curse of the Blue Tattoo'' [[spoiler: when she accidentally [[KillItWithFire burns down]] half of Boston, Mass.]].
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* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Beginning in ''Curse of the Blue Tattoo'' [[spoiler: when she accidentally [[KillItWithFire burns down]] half of Boston, Mass.]].Massachusetts]].
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* SweetPollyOliver Of course. Almost once per book she'll dress in men's clothing.
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* SweetPollyOliver SweetPollyOliver: Of course. Almost once per book she'll dress in men's clothing.
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* VirginPower: despite all of her escapades, Jackie has so far managed to avoid being deflowered, which provides her with a great deal of moral suasion and the ultimate defense when adversaries accuse her of immorality.
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* VirginPower: despite Despite all of her escapades, Jackie has so far managed to avoid being deflowered, which provides her with a great deal of moral suasion and the ultimate defense when adversaries accuse her of immorality.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes The villains of the series often mistake Jaimy's being a gentleman for being weak.
* {{Bishonen}} A number of girls remark on how beautiful/pretty he is.
* {{Bishonen}} A number of girls remark on how beautiful/pretty he is.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes BewareTheNiceOnes: The villains of the series often mistake Jaimy's being a gentleman for being weak.
* {{Bishonen}} A number of girls remark on how beautiful/pretty he is.weak.
* {{Bishonen}} A number of girls remark on how beautiful/pretty he is.
* PrettyBoy: A number of girls remark on how beautiful/pretty he is.
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* TookALevelInBadass In ''Mississippi Jack'' Also in ''Viva Jacquelina'', [[spoiler:where he learned bojutsu from a Shaolin monk]].
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* TookALevelInBadass TookALevelInBadass: In ''Mississippi Jack'' Also in ''Viva Jacquelina'', [[spoiler:where he learned bojutsu from a Shaolin monk]].
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* FirstNameBasis Insists (despite his birth) that Jaimy regard him "Richard" or "Dick".
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs Insists that Flashby call him "Lord Allen" in a clear showing of disdain.
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs Insists that Flashby call him "Lord Allen" in a clear showing of disdain.
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* FirstNameBasis FirstNameBasis: Insists (despite his birth) that Jaimy regard him "Richard" or "Dick".
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* BattleButler Constantly [[GunsAkimbo dual-wielding]] [[WeaponOfChoice percussion cap pistols]].
* TheJeeves Often providing moral guidance to his wayward Jacky while brushing or washing her hair.
* TheJeeves Often providing moral guidance to his wayward Jacky while brushing or washing her hair.
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* BattleButler BattleButler: Constantly [[GunsAkimbo dual-wielding]] [[WeaponOfChoice percussion cap pistols]].
*TheJeeves TheJeeves: Often providing moral guidance to his wayward Jacky while brushing or washing her hair.
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* DisabilitySuperPower: He can tell how well the sails are drawing by touching the rigging.
* DisabilitySuperPower: He can tell how well the sails are drawing by touching the rigging.
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*DisabilitySuperPower: DisabilitySuperpower: He can tell how well the sails are drawing by touching the rigging.
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* HugeGuyTinyGirl Hughie & "Little Mary" were a team, with Mary Faber [[ParrotPetPosition riding on his shoulders]]
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: uses his position and contacts in London as well as some good old-fashioned perjury to ensure that Jackie stays in trouble with the law.
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: uses Uses his position and contacts in London as well as some good old-fashioned perjury to ensure that Jackie stays in trouble with the law.
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* WouldHitAGirl: though Though not as bad as Bliffil, as he prefers slaps to fisticuffs
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* BadassBoast Many of the Tall Tales surrounding Mike Fink are his own invention, it seems.
* BarBrawl Immediately upon setting foot in Pittsburgh.
* BarBrawl Immediately upon setting foot in Pittsburgh.
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* BadassBoast BadassBoast: Many of the Tall Tales surrounding Mike Fink are his own invention, it seems.
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* SquashMatch SquashMatch: Between him and Jaimy.
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* LoonyFan He's read the Bloody Jack [[ShowWithinAShow novels]], and identifies Jacky by her tattoo.
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* LoonyFan LoonyFan: He's read the Bloody Jack [[ShowWithinAShow novels]], and identifies Jacky by her tattoo.
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Jackie's nemesis at Lawson Peabody, she'll do almost anything to get a rise out of Jackie, or better yet, get her expelled.
* FoeYay: Clarissa's almost reflexive snake-and-mongoose relationship with Jackie takes on a new perspective when she runs away to New Orleans and shacks up with another of Jackie's failed suitors -- Mademoiselle DeBourbon
* GreenEyedMonster: Her enmity turns out to be half snobbery, half jealousy; she envies Jackie's independence and freedom.
* FoeYay: Clarissa's almost reflexive snake-and-mongoose relationship with Jackie takes on a new perspective when she runs away to New Orleans and shacks up with another of Jackie's failed suitors -- Mademoiselle DeBourbon
* GreenEyedMonster: Her enmity turns out to be half snobbery, half jealousy; she envies Jackie's independence and freedom.
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