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The notebook he had to sell had been the property of a distinguished distant relative, long since dead; the Italian, Ferlini, who about 1834 ransacked the ruins of Meroee in the kingdom of Candace. Ferlini had given treasure in gold, scarabs, and jewels to Berlin, all of which he had discovered in a secret cache in the masonry of a pyramid, in the so-called "pyramid field" of Meroee.
Gertrude was looking another way; only Candace noticed Georgie's unwonted emotion. Nothing more was said about Fort Greene at the time; but a little later, when she was in her room smoothing her hair for dinner, Georgie tapped at the door. "Cannie," she said, "I'm going to ask you not to say anything more to anybody about having seen Berry and me on Washington Street to-day."
You've heard, of course, about my buying the Marquis of Redruth's yacht Candace, on his bankruptcy the second biggest, and the most up-to-date yacht in the world and turning her into a pleasure cruiser for the Mediterranean?"
So Joel stuck out his brown hands, and Candace laying hold of them, he tugged, very red in the face, till finally she set her ample gaiters on the ground and stood straight. Up rushed Van. "They're complaining at the post office," he squealed. "You've got to give me your bag. Folks can't get their letters. Give me the bag." He thrust out both hands. Joel turned on him in a fury,
Every moment the color of the water seemed to change, and the soft duns and purples of the horizon line to grow more intense. Candace had no eyes but for the sea. She scarcely noticed the handsome houses on her right hand, each standing in its wide lawn, with shrubberies and beds of dazzling flowers. Gertrude, on the contrary, scarcely looked at the sea.
Tell him he's breaking my heart." "By Jove! You're not in earnest?" "I am. Oh, he must come back! I thought on board the Candace we were as good as engaged. I I submitted to his kisses, and now "
I never saw much of her after she married your father and went up to live among the hills." She sighed softly: there was a short pause. Then, with a sudden change of tone, she continued: "And all this time you have never been shown your room. I can't think why they were so stupid. Who was it put you here, Cannie?" "It was a lady in a cap," replied Candace, hesitatingly. "A lady? cap?
"May I take something else to Aunt Candace, too, Marjie?" "What else?" She looked up innocently into my face. We were at the door-step now. "A good-night kiss, Marjie." "I'll see her myself about that," she replied mischievously but confusedly, pushing me away. I knew her cheek was flushed as my own, and I caught her hand and held it fast. "Good-night, Phil."
The oath taken by the Knights of the Order of Malta, was "To kill, or make the Mohammedans prisoners, for the glory of God." "And behold a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace, Queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for worship." Arrival at Mourzuk; and reported as a Christian Marabout from Soudan.
"And what'll Mis' Cabot and Mis' Alstyne say?" groaned Candace. Then she sat right down on the grass and began to pick at the dolls discontentedly. "W'y couldn't you 'a' looked whar you're goin', Mas'r Joel?" "Have Mrs. Alstyne and Mrs. Cabot bought those dolls?" cried Joel, pointing a brown finger at them. "Oh, dear me!" He just saved himself from exclaiming, "Those horrors!"
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