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He must have followed all this time." "Do see if it is the same dog, Prince," Beechy cried to the tall, dark figure completing the tail of our procession. A yelp answered. "Yes, it is he," called the Prince. "A mangy little mongrel. I do not think he will trouble us any longer." Then a surprising thing happened. The Vestal Virgin rose suddenly in the car.
"Mamma, you'd send a mummied cat into hysterics," giggled Beechy. "I guess together we'd make the fortune of a dime museum, if they could show us now. But the cars didn't run over us, did they?" "No, but the next ones will and oh, this cart! Mr. Terrymore's the queerest man, he's steering right for it. No, we've missed it this time." "We'll miss it every time, you'll see," I reassured her.
They took us to Chioggia on their steam yacht which it seemed they must let half the year to afford the use of it the other half. As it is, Beechy compares his dark face to a "plum cake, from which somebody has picked out all the plums;" and the black eyes, deep set in this scarred mask, gaze out of it with sinister effect. Yet his manner is perfect, witty, and gracious.
Prince Dalmar-Kalm was as ignorant as others, or appeared to be, although this was his own land; and so it seemed doubtful what would be our next adventure. The spin was a very short one, for the day was hot, and we didn't care to leave Beechy long alone. But when we came back she was asleep still; and I was getting rid of my holland motor-coat in my own room when Aunt Kathryn tapped at the door.
The Countess screamed, Beechy clung once more to my knee, and we all glared at the red car with the white canopy as it shot ruthlessly ahead. The Prince's tyres were strapped with spiked leather covers, which we could not carry as they would lose us too much speed; therefore the danger of side-slip was lessened for him, and he flew by without even knowing how near we had been to an accident.
Early in the century sloops of war had orders "to cruise between Beechy and the Downs to Impress men out of homeward-bound Merchant Ships," and in 1755 Rodney's lieutenants found the Channel "full of tenders." Except in times of profound peace few and brief in the century under review it was rarely or never in any other state.
Almost I felt them tingle; and suddenly I said to myself, "Good gracious, Beechy Kidder, what if your dolls should take to playing the game their own way, in spite of you, now you've set them going! Where would you be then, I'd like to know?" And a horrid creep ran down my spine, at the thought of Prince Dalmar-Kalm as a step-father.
The guide-books say that Cuneo's interesting, and anyhow there are hotels of sorts there also machine tools, a forge, a lathe, and things of that kind which we can't carry about with us." "What a splendid adventure!" exclaimed Maida. "I love it; don't you, Beechy?" I answered that I entertained a wild passion for it; but all the same, I wished I'd mentioned it first.
"Castle? I don't see any castle," returned Mamma, gazing around. "What's left of it looks more like a walking-stick than a castle," said I, pointing up to the tall, tapering finger of broken stone that almost touched the clouds. "Is Mamma's new property in Dalmatia as well perserved as that, Prince?" "You have always a joke ready, little Miss Beechy." His lips smiled; but his eyes boxed my ears.
Hence, Captain Beechy, in alluding to the "Polynesian Researches" of Ellis, says that the author has impressed his readers with a far more elevated idea of the moral condition of the Tahitians, and the degree of civilization to which they have attained, than they deserve; or, at least, than the facts which came under his observation authorized.
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