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She's been rigged new throughout and looked more like a yacht than a coasting vessel knocking about the southern trades. I had left a note at Maria Debora's for old Tom, and another for him to give Ben Gibson. I had some things to buy, and several of them were by Captain Tugg's advice. He advanced me money for my purchases, and they included a second-hand Winchester and a revolver.
Music is sometimes hypnotic, but not such music; dancing is the most alluring of the spatial arts, and Debora's miming was a delight to the eye; but could it have so obscured his judgments as to paint upon the canvas of his fancy those prodigious frescoes of time and space? In the iron solitude of his soul he tortured himself with these questions.
He was so very tall that I had not raised my eyes far enough to see his face before he spoke again. "Professor! ye sartainly give me a start. By the e-tar-nal snakes! I could have taken my dying oath you wasn't north o' the cape o' the Virgins. What you doin' yere in Maria Debora's?"
No man could live after this terrific peep at the Ancient of Days. Debora's eyes peered into Ferval's, filled with the music that enmeshes. And now sounded the apocalyptic trumpets even unto the glittering edges of eternity.... Amid this vertiginous tempest of tones Debora danced the Dance of Space.
Rather, I had a strong desire to see the man whom he called his partner the man who had given his name as Carver on the Sally Smith, but was now known to Tugg as "Professor Vose." I was in a fret of uncertainty. I shall never forget that evening as I sat beside Captain Adoniram Tugg on Maria Debora's portico.
Do not the Rabbis heal the sick?" Mary asked. "And the prophets are all dead," Martha added. "Wait and see," was Debora's answer. In a gala dress of blue with silver embroidery, Martha, her faithful Eli close at hand and girt in a clean towel, awaited the coming of Passover guests, for the few days preceding the Feast were used for visiting, and Lazarus and his sisters had many friends.
He's an odd stick," quoth Captain Tugg, after supper, as we sat on the broad step before Maria Debora's door, and he smoked the native cheroots while I listened. "He ain't been in a civilized town like this since I've knowed him. For a l'arned chap, and a New Englander, he seems to have lost all curiosity, and, I reckon, he's got a grouch on the rest of mankind."
But I must confess that what I did mean to do had not as yet formed itself rationally in my mind when I got back to old Maria Debora's. Tom was out somewhere seeing the sights. He had not gone with me to the consul's office. Supper time came before the old man showed up and I sat down among the first of the boarders. They were a cosmopolitan lot, rough seamen from several quarters of the globe.
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