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Then, gathering power and intensity, it swept its hearers along upon its furious tempest; yet, as she listened, Beatrix felt herself inspired for, underneath it all, there was the same throbbing, insistent note which seemed to assure her that the singer had hoped and lost and fought and conquered, that he knew all about it, himself.
The magic promise, "Beatrix shall love you," made by Camille, was the talisman with which he strove to restrain the fiery ardor of his passion. But he knew not how to consume the time; he could not sleep, and spent the hours of the night in reading; every evening he brought back with him, as Mariotte remarked, cartloads of books.
Passing by Teneriffe, they arrived at Gran Canaria on Saturday the 25th August; and found that Pinzon had only got in there the day before. From him the admiral was informed that Donna Beatrix had sailed for Gomera on the 20th with the vessel which he was so anxious to obtain.
The Queen listened in silence, too generous still to smile at the girl, too much in earnest to be hurt. "A man has a right to choose for himself," she answered when Beatrix paused at last. "Yes, but you take that right from him. You thrust a choice upon him that is your cruelty." "How?" "Look at me and look at yourself. Would any man think twice in choosing?
"What an admirable thing is common-sense! Does Sir Victor know about the hand-shaking and the cousinly agreement?" "Don't be sarcastic, Beatrix; it isn't your forte! Be very sure of that." "Ah! such as it is," puts in Trix cynically; "and when, is it to be, Dithy the wedding?" "My dear Trix, I only said yes this morning. Gentlemen don't propose and fix the wedding-day all in a breath.
Not to be hampered in climbing by women's clothing, she wore trousers with frilled edges, a short blouse, a peaked cap, and, by way of staff, she carried a riding-whip, for Camille has always had a certain vanity in her strength and her agility. Thus arrayed, she looked far handsomer than Beatrix.
He wondered also why Sir Arnold had not appeared, and whether, having sailed from Ephesus, he had been shipwrecked. But his thoughts soon turned back to his work, and he sat on the low rail by the main- rigging, looking down at the blue water as the ship ran smoothly along. What was there in Beatrix to hold him, after all? It was nothing but a boyish memory, revived by a mistaken idea of faith.
To this course he was impelled all the more as Frederic, in further proof of his contempt of the most sacred obligations, when they stood in the way of his ambition, shortly added to his crimes against the Church another against public morals, by wantonly repudiating, out of motives of state policy, his lawful empress, to marry in her stead Beatrix of Burgundy.
And Beatrix, delighted at her easy victory, had allowed herself to be led off into a consideration of the decorations for the table. She could not be expected to foresee that, in giving the final orders for the supper, Lorimer would include a generous allowance of champagne. Neither could she have foreseen that one of the invitations would find its way into the hands of Lloyd Avalons.
They didn't catch it, though, except in the figurative sense of our remote childhood. I never saw Beatrix look so happy in her life as when she planted her second foot safely on the pier." "What about Lorimer?" Bobby shook his broad shoulders, with the air of a man shaking off a disagreeable subject. "Oh, he's all right," he said shortly. Together the two men idled away the afternoon.
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