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With that the door opened, and McKelvie entered in high sea-boots, but the fear did not leave them, for the Laird was wont to wear sea-boots when the weather was bad on his rocky isle; and with their minds all a-taut for warnings and signs, the tramping in the flagged passage was fearsome enough. Indeed, I breathed the more freely myself when McKelvie entered with Dan at his heels.
It sailed through society all a-taut with convention, and was comme il faut from stem to stern. Lily and Osgood had always known each other. They passed through the season of hoop and ball, dancing-school, tableaux, and charades together; sympathized in each other's embryonic flirtations; and were such fast friends that no one ever dreamed of any danger to them from love.
We reached Kobé in due course where nothing of moment took place, if we except a gale of wind which compelled our liberty-men much against their will, of course to remain on shore all night. "Well ''tis an ill wind that blows nobody good, is it not?" July 2nd. We are at Yokohama, and are a-taut; for to-day some members of the Japanese imperial family are to visit us.
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