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When they arrived they found the Tara dressed in flags, from truck to deck; Lady Nora stood on the platform of the boarding-stairs, and the crew were mustered amidships. "Your eminence," cried Lady Nora, "you should have a salute if I knew the proper number of guns." "My dear lady," said the cardinal, taking off his hat, "the Church militant does not burn gunpowder, it fights hand to hand.
Scarcely were these prophetic words uttered, when the soldier statue at the head of the boarding-stairs swung his musket forward into position, and hailed in emphatic Spanish, a language which, thanks to my mother, I knew fairly well.
Straight toward the beach she steamed, looming larger and ever larger; then her speed slackened, slackened, until at last she lay rolling quietly a quarter of a mile off-shore. A shrill piping came over the water as the crew was mustered amidships and the boarding-stairs lowered. "Well, he must be a swell!" said Sue, "or they wouldn't take all that trouble. There goes the boat."
No, no; I never thought that." "Nora," said the earl, "I didn't know how to do any of those things, and I didn't have time to learn." "I would have waited for you, always," she said. "I didn't know that," said the earl. "I hoped you didn't," said Lady Nora. "Come!" and she sprang through the door. The earl followed her. They ran up the companion-way, across the deck, down the boarding-stairs.
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