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Leaning on the arm of her escort, as her carriage drove up to the door, one beautifully gowned woman stepped out. Over her hair was thrown a black, filmy scarf in which nestled a number of handsome diamonds. Just as she reached the curb, but before she could step into the waiting carriage, this woman gave a shriek of dismay. The gale had caught at her diamond-strewn head-covering.
Back to the north the river led the eye, past the cluster of hunters' huts on the margin, past the post where the Spanish flag was flying, and whence the early drum was sounding past a slope of arrowy ferns here, a grove of lofty cocoa-nut trees there, once more to the bay, now diamond-strewn, and rocking on its bosom the boats, whose sails were now specks of light in contrast with the black islets of the Seven Brothers, which caught the eye as if just risen from the sea.
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