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Updated: May 7, 2025
Moncreiff, which you asked me to keep, and which I have kept. It was here, at this very spot, with my old barge-yacht, that I first had the pleasure of meeting you. And I thought ... perhaps you had reasons.... However, your secret is safe." "How nice you are, Mr. Gilman!" Audrey said, with a gentle smile. "You're kindness itself. But there is nothing to trouble about, really.
Well, I found this yacht one evening, knowing it must be her from the description I had. She was what is called a "barge-yacht", of fifty or sixty tons, built for shallow water on the lines of a Dutch galliot, with lee-boards and those queer round bows and square stern. She's something like those galliots anchored near us now.
I went up to meet him with our receipt for dues, which he signed carelessly. Then he paused and muttered 'Dooltzhibella, scratching his head, 'that was the name. English? he asked. 'Yes. 'Little lust-cutter, that is so; there was an inquiry for you. 'Whom from? 'A friend of yours from a big barge-yacht. 'Oh, I know; she went on to Hamburg, I suppose?
And in the foreground, against a disused Hard that was a couple of hundred yards lower down than the village Hard, a large white yacht was moored, probably the largest yacht that had ever threaded that ticklish navigation. She was a shallow-draft barge-yacht, rigged like a Thames barge, and her whiteness and the glint of her brass, and the flicker of her ensign at the stern were dazzling.
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