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And I don't think Sebright expected any suggestion from me. This took place during one of our busy talks only he and I alone in his cabin. He had been washing his hands, making ready for tea.
I trust you told him nothing about Carthew?" He flushed to his ears. "I'm awfully sorry," he said. "He seemed civil, and I wanted to get rid of him. It was only the address he asked." "And you gave it?" I cried. "I'm really awfully sorry," said Sebright. "I'm afraid I did." "God forgive you!" was my only comment, and I turned my back upon the blunderer.
He placed a chair for her in front of the window. There was a warmth in his tone which I had not heard yet, when he begged her to be seated in that place. She took the chair. Mr. Sebright thereupon drew back, and bowed to Herr Grosse, with a courteous wave of his hand towards Lucilla which signified, "You first!"
Sebright himself admitted that at first he did not see how it could be contrived. He didn't see at all. He thought and thought. It was enough to sicken one of every sort of thinking. Then, suddenly, the few words Castro had let drop about the sugar estate and the relay of mules came into his head providentially, as Mrs. Williams would say.
They had defied him once, it is true but even that had been done out of fear, as it were. Dismayed, I spoke quickly to Seraphina. With her head resting on her hand, and her eyes following the aimless tracings of her finger on the table, she said: "It shall be as God wills it, Juan." "For Heaven's sake, don't!" said Sebright, coughing behind me. He understood Spanish fairly well.
Herr Grosse rose, and vacated the chair in favor of Mr. Sebright. In the ecstasy of the new hope now confirmed in her, Lucilla seemed to be unconscious of the presence of the English oculist, when he took his colleague's place.
"I don't see that's much worse than going off at six o'clock in the morning to get married on the quiet; all alone with a man in a hackney coach you know you did and being given away by a perfect stranger." "Mr. Sebright! Be quiet! How dare you?... Owen!"
That's the very thing!" rejoiced Sebright. And it was agreed that this would be our best way. We should time our arrival for early morning, or else at dusk. The craft that brought us in should be made, by a piece of unskillful management, to fall aboard the Lion, and remain alongside long enough to give us time to sneak in through an open deck-port.
Luckily, she knows no more of life than a baby. But it's a most cruel set out." Sebright had exposed the domestic situation on board the Lion with a force of insight and sympathy hardly to be expected from his years. No doubt his attachment to the disparate couple counted for not a little.
The four oars beat the sombre water, rising and falling apparently in the same place. She was an interminable time coming on, but as she neared us I was surprised at her dashing speed. Sebright, who steered, laid her alongside smartly, and two of his men, clambering over without a word, lowered our lug at once. "We came to reef your sail for you.
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