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As my wife's " "I've meant well all through," I broke in hurriedly. "And just now I gave you a bit of good advice. You'll thank me when you've taken it." "Perhaps I will take it," he muttered. "Hurrah!" said Alb. "The grand pressure of the whole flock of us is forcing the barrier apart. We shall make our way through in a few minutes now." "Good-by, then, all," exclaimed Sir Alec.
This is the road to nowhere good God, how tired I am of it." "And of those who go with you, Alb." "I am ashamed of myself because of them, Lois." "You silly boy, Alb are they ashamed, Alb? Oh, no, no people who love are never ashamed." He did not contest the point with her, nor might she linger. Bells were ringing everywhere, syrens were calling the people to work.
Before I spoke to him I glanced at the others to see that they were all fully occupied in listening to Robert talk of the house, next door to his mother's in Rotterdam, which he had the intention of buying "as a wedding present for Phyllis." "Alb," said I, "just throw a look over your shoulder, and say what manner of thing you think that is coming after us." He threw the look.
Then he helped him with each of the vestments, lifted the alb over his head and tenderly drew the bandaged hands through the sleeves; knit the girdle round him; gave him the stole to kiss and then placed it over his neck and crossed the ends beneath the girdle and adjusted the amice; then he placed the maniple on his left arm, but so tenderly! and lastly, lifted the great red chasuble and dropped it over his head and straightened it and there stood the priest as he had stood last Sunday, in crimson vestments again; but bowed and thin-faced now.
Thread lace was manufactured in Spain in 1492, and in the Cathedral of Granada is a lace alb presented to the church by Ferdinand and Isabella, one of the few relics of ecclesiastical grandeur preserved in the country. Cardinal Wiseman, in a letter to Mrs. Palliser, states that he had himself officiated in this vestment, which was valued at ten thousand crowns.
"Wish I had a diver's helmet," he said, when he had breathed; and promptly dipped out of sight again. Once more the knocking came. Alb was working hard and loyally for my interests, and against his own, I couldn't help remembering; but meanwhile we were floating idly, losing precious time, while the pirate gained upon us. Fifteen minutes more of this inaction, and he would be on our backs.
"Motor's all right. It must be the propeller that's wrong. I'm going down to see," he explained, no trace of excitement on his face, no hint of flurry in his voice. Alb is a good plucked one, and for presence of mind and savoir faire I've never met his equal. As "Mascotte" had slowed down, and then stopped, "Waterspin" came lolloping alongside.
They stood for an instant in the shadow of a shuttered shop and, leaping up at his question, she lifted warm red lips to his own and the girl of seventeen and the boy of mature twenty kissed as ardently as lovers newly sworn to eternal devotion. "I do love you, Alb," she cried, "I shall never love any other man straight, my dear, though there ain't much use in a-telling you.
The day's trip was to be a return to Amsterdam, not with the object of reviving impressions of that city, but for the pleasure of the run through the River Vecht, which Alb praised as the prettiest stream in the Netherlands, and named a miniature Thames.
"He may be out of the lock, but we're not out of the wood," said Alb. He had slowed down, reversed the engine, and quietly passed into a water-lane between some huge barges, looking not a whit disconcerted by the curious gaze of the barge-folk who wondered at his bare feet and soaked overalls. "Why, what can he do?" I asked. "He'll have to wait an hour before the lock opens again."
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