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"Goodness gracious, Mildred, you don't mean to say that you've been buying a yacht and told me nothing about it? Just think! Well, I call that sly."
This is the kitchen: is it not admirably arranged? What a multum in parvo! And how delightful are the fumes of the turtle-soup! At sea we do meet with rough weather at times; but, for roughing it out, give me a yacht. Now that I have shown you round the vessel, I must introduce the parties on board.
This description, although it was apt enough, offended the more pretentious people in Pickie who were only mollified when the innocent reporter, in a later article, altered the description to, "the Brighton of Ireland." With consummate understanding of human character, he added, remembering the Yacht Club, that perhaps the most accurate description of Pickie would be "the Cowes of Ireland."
Some of the balls had gone high up into the rigging, and some had rattled against the hull of the steamer, but the man with the gun disappeared in a flash. Whether he had been hit or frightened, nobody knew. Shirley, startled at this tremendous volley, turned a quick backward glance and then dived, but soon reappeared again, striking out as before for the yacht.
"Must be the same people," declared the Major. "Leithcourt spoke once or twice of his yacht, but we all put it down as a non-existent vessel, because he was always drawing the long bow about his adventures." "And how did you first come to know him?" I asked of the Major eagerly. "Oh, I don't know. Somebody brought him to mess, and we struck up an acquaintance across the table.
So it came that the three members of the Bines family pursued during the summer their respective careers of diversion under conditions most satisfactory to each. The steam yacht Viluca, chartered by Percival, was put into commission early in June. Her first cruise of ten days was a signal triumph. His eight guests were the men with whom he had played poker so tirelessly during the winter.
Never, she knew, had he appealed to her more than at this moment, when he stood, a stern figure at the wheel, and vouchsafed her nothing but commonplaces. This, surely, was his element. Presently, however, the yacht slid out from the infolding land into an open sea that stretched before them to a silver-lined horizon.
He was looking at Laura Dearborn over the heads of Landry and the Gretry girl. "I didn't suppose he'd be getting measured for a private yacht," he murmured. Then he continued, pulling his mustache vigorously: "Charlie, upon my word, what a beautiful what beautiful hair that girl has!"
I heard her say to one of the servants once that my father had been lost on a yacht, and that he was oh, ever such a handsome man. But but she said " Rosemary faltered, her grey-blue eyes suddenly large and troubled. "What was it she said?" prompted Jane, with so much sympathetic interest that the little girl could not refuse to answer.
Pulitzer, who was well over six feet tall, could wash his hands without stooping. The provision of this very high wash-hand-stand illustrates the minute care with which everything had been foreseen in the construction and fitting-up of the yacht.
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