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Her uncle saw her upper lip slowly swell into that arrogant pout he knew so well. "So," he repeated savagely. "So this is your idea of of romance. A runaway affair, with a high-seas pirate." Ardita glanced at him carelessly. "What an old fool you are!" she said quietly. "Is that the best you can say for yourself?" "No," she said as if considering. "No, there's something else.
It was on the misty afternoon of Wednesday, May 31, that Admiral David Beatty, in command of Britain's battle-cruiser squadron, sighted the vanguard of the German high-seas fleet steaming "on an enterprise to the north" from its long-accustomed anchorages in the placid waters of the Kiel Canal and under the guns of Helgoland.
"Then your memory is as false as your soul!" Alexander shouted in his face, "for there was another figure by the soldier's side. The clay, still wet, clung to the same board as the figure of the soldier, modeled by the same hand. No, no, my crafty fellow, you will not catch the workman; for, being warned, he is already on the high-seas." "It is false!" shrieked Zminis.
"High-seas piracy, if you prefer," assented Kirkwood with entire equanimity. "I'm going to have the money, and you're going to give it up. The transaction by any name would smell no sweeter, Calendar. Come fork over!" "And if I refuse?" "I wouldn't refuse, if I were you." "Why not?" "The consequences would be too painful." "You mean you'd puncture me with that gun?"
The contrast between the commencement and close of his life was the effect of casual circumstances. During a considerable time, he was a mariner, at a period when there was much license on the high-seas.
The good Bishop and other loyal prelates must have known all about the Fitz- Clarences those wild "olive branches about the table" of His Majesty; and they were doubtless aware of that little unfortunate habit of profanity, acquired on the high-seas, and scarcely becoming to the Head of the Church; but they, perhaps, considered that His Majesty swore as the sailor, not as the sovereign.
"Then your memory is as false as your soul!" Alexander shouted in his face, "for there was another figure by the soldier's side. The clay, still wet, clung to the same board as the figure of the soldier, modeled by the same hand. No, no, my crafty fellow, you will not catch the workman; for, being warned, he is already on the high-seas." "It is false!" shrieked Zminis.
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