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Then he boarded it with his men and took it and plundered it; after which he sailed on with his prize, till he reached the city of Genoa, where he repaired to the gate of a palace, that gave upon the sea, and there came forth to him a veiled damsel, who said, 'Hast thou brought the jewel and its owner? 'I have brought them both, answered he; and she said, 'Then give me the jewel. So he gave it to her and returning to the port, fired guns to announce his safe return; whereupon the King of the city, being notified of his arrival, came down to receive him and said to him, 'What manner of voyage hast thou had? 'A right prosperous one, answered the captain, 'and I have made prize of a ship with one- and-forty Muslim merchants. Being them ashore, said the King.
Though it is now eight- and-forty years ago, it is clearer to me than the doings of last week, for the memory of an old man is like one of those glasses which shows out what is at a distance and blurs all that is near. My mother had been in a tremble ever since the first rumour of the preliminaries came to our ears, for she knew that he might come as soon as his message.
Well, I waited the five and-forty minutes, and she put on her bonnet, and so many other smart things, that we couldn't possibly walk straight up to the old church. We had to go round by the butcher's shop, and order half a pound of suet; no less.
Excited by foolish anger, animated by a sense of insult wholly misplaced and imaginary, she became a very passably pretty person, the immature but hopeful Serena of eighteen looking forth from the eyes of the narrow-souled disappointed Serena of eight- and-forty. "Of course, George may have some explanation of what happened last night," she went on, speaking rapidly.
But he was already past the middle of life, and I was not his only son. My mother had been his second wife, and he was five- and-forty when he married her.
'Should anything happen to Marie, she had said to Michel Voss, before she gave him her troth, 'you will let Minnie Bromar come to me? Michel Voss, who was then hotly in love with his hoped-for bride hotly in love in spite of his four- and-forty years gave the required promise. The said 'something' which had been suspected had happened.
An Indian of some five- and-forty years came out as they did so. "Are you Dias Otero?" Harry asked. "The same, senor." "I have just arrived from England, and bring a letter to you from Senor Barnett, with whom you travelled for two or three years some time ago." The man's face lit up with pleasure. "Will you enter, senor. Friends of Senor Barnett may command my services in any way.
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