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At that moment Raoul found leisure to walk a yard or two toward the rear, in order to ascertain if the cover of Ghita were sufficient. The girl was on her knees, lost to all around her; though, could he have read her heart, he would have found it divided between entreaties to the Deity and love for himself. The lugger sustained no harm.
And this youth might be taken to have come straight from Olympus at least when he has had a touch of my razor." "Orsu! Monna Ghita!" continued Nello, not sorry to see some sport; "what has happened to cause such a thunderstorm? Has this young stranger been misbehaving himself?"
A little procession accompanied the body from the first, and, Ghita being universally known and respected among the simple inhabitants of those heights, when it entered the street of St. Agata it had grown into a line that included a hundred believers.
"That is because thou know'st not God! He is the creator of the principles of which thou speak'st, and is greater than thy principles themselves." "It is easy to say this, Ghita but hard to prove. I take the acorn and put it in the ground; in due time it comes up a plant; in the course of years, it becomes a tree.
A long pause occurred, in which Raoul remained stead-fastly gazing at the starry canopy above. "It is remarkable, Ghita," he said, at length, "that I Raoul Yvard the corsair the man of wars and tempests combats and hairbreadth escapes should be dying here, on this rock, with all those stars looking down upon me, as it might be, from your heaven, seeming to smile upon me!"
"You have divined the offence like a soothsayer," said the stranger, laughingly. "Only that I had not the good fortune to find Monna Ghita here at first.
"A very good name, Signore, and one of which you have no need to be ashamed. And thine?" turning to the girl. "Ghita Caraccioli, Eccellenza; the sister's daughter of this honest tower-keeper of the prince." Had a bomb exploded over the Foudroyant, Nelson certainly would not have been as much startled; while the lady's beautiful face assumed a look of dark resentment, not unmingled with fear.
"Well, then, I tell it you, and hope that we shall not part again without selecting our star and our hour if, indeed, we ever part more. Though I have forgotten to tell you this, Ghita, it is because you are never absent from my thoughts no star is necessary to recall Monte Argentaro and the Towers."
"Si si I know what you mean now, S'nore; there has been a vessel like that you mention off the island; for I saw her with my own eyes si si. It was about the twenty-third hour last evening a lugger, and we all said she must be French by her wicked looks." "Raoul!" said Ghita, as if reproaching him for an indiscretion.
Raoul's voice was not heard, except in the few orders mentioned; and when, by the glaring light which illuminated all in the lugger and the adjacent water to some distance, nearly to the brightness of noonday, he saw Ghita gazing at the spectacle in awed admiration and terror, he went to her, and spoke as if the whole were merely a brilliant spectacle, devised for their amusement.
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