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They'll start at once. This is the 12th April, isn't it? Tuesday the 12th? Caldigate assented. 'The old Goldfinder leaves Plymouth this day week. From this he was sure that Bollum had heard all the story from Euphemia Smith herself, or he would not have talked of the 'old' Goldfinder. 'Let them have the bills handed to them on board, and they'll go. Let me have the duplicates here.
The Goldfinder had on board her over a hundred first-class passengers, and nearly as many of the second class. The life among them was much of the same kind, though in the second class there was less of idleness, less of pleasure, and something more of an attempt to continue the ordinary industry of life. The women worked more and the men read more than their richer neighbours.
If not, why should I have been a singer on the stage at so early an age, why a dancer, why should I have married such a one as Mr. Smith? 'I do not know of what sort he was, said Caldigate. 'This is not the time to ask, when you have just come to see me; when I am so delighted to see you! Oh, it is such a pleasure! I have not had a nice word spoken to me since I left the Goldfinder.
She had lost all her comeliness. It was now nearly seven years since they two had been on the Goldfinder together, and then he had found her very attractive. There was no attraction now. She was much aged; and her face was coarse, as though she had taken to drinking. But there was still about her something of that look of intellect which had captivated him more, perhaps, than her beauty.
'With a fixed determination to make a fortune, and come back, and be facile princeps among all the Shands. I have already made up my mind as to the sum I will give each of the girls, and the way I will start the two younger boys in business. In the meantime let us light a pipe. The Goldfinder
When alone in his walks, and he was mostly alone, his mind would fix itself on his great trouble, and on the crushing sorrow which might only too probably fall upon that loved one whom he had called his wife. Oh, with what regret now did he think of the good advice which the captain had given him on board the Goldfinder, and of the sententious, timid wisdom of Mrs. Callender!
Smith and Caldigate began their last conversation on board the Goldfinder, a conversation which lasted, with one or two interruptions, late into the night. 'So we have come to the end of it, she said. 'To the end of what? 'To the end of all that is pleasant and easy and safe. Don't you remember my telling you how I dreaded the finish?
Captain Munday was there, the captain of the Goldfinder, who spoke of Caldigate's conduct on board, and of his own belief that they two were engaged when they left the ship. 'As we are prepared to acknowledge that there was an engagement, I do not think that we need trouble you, Captain Munday, said Sir John.
The very next day chance brought to Ahalala one who had been a passenger on board the Goldfinder; and the man, hearing of the success of Shand and Caldigate came to see them. 'Of course you know, said the man, 'what your fellow-passenger is doing down at Sydney? Dick Shand, who was present, replied that they had heard nothing of any fellow-passenger.
A ball was being held on the quarter-deck, or rather, as there was in truth no quarter-deck to the Goldfinder, on that clean, large, luxurious expanse devoted to the aristocracy in the after-part of the vessel. From among the second-class passengers, two fiddlers and a flute player had been procured, who formed the band.
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