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It was only as they were walking up the tarred planking of the jetty together, somewhat behind the rest of the party, that she asked with a queer mixtures of tenderness and humour: "May I guess, Ann?" "There's nothing to guess," said Ann bluntly. Lady Susan came to a standstill and stood looking down at her with eyes that laughed. "So you've turned him down?" she queried. Ann nodded silently.
"It was the captain. I had beaten the flagship by three hours, and I was glad to hear the old man's voice, tremulous and tired. 'Is it you, Marlow? 'Mind the end of that jetty, sir, I cried. "He approached cautiously, and brought up with the deep-sea lead-line which we had saved for the under-writers. I eased my painter and fell alongside.
Four large vessels, recently built, had just been launched. At the end of the jetty, his clothes richly laced with gold, glittering, as was customary with him, with diamonds and precious stones, his hat ornamented with a white feather which drooped upon his shoulder, Buckingham was seen surrounded by a staff almost as brilliant as himself.
The Spray was berthed on the beach at a small jetty at Launceston while the tide driven in by the gale that brought her up the river was unusually high; and she lay there hard and fast, with not enough water around her at any time after to wet one's feet till she was ready to sail; then, to float her, the ground was dug from under her keel.
Colville and Monsieur de Gemosac were on the quay in the afternoon at high tide when "The Last Hope" was warped on to the slip-way. All Farlingford was there too, and Captain Clubbe carried out the difficult task with hardly any words at all from a corner of the jetty, with Loo Barebone on board as second in command.
The jetty itself, under the shadow of the bank overgrown by drooping bushes, was hidden in darkness.
"Now you are reasonable," said Lingard, much relieved. "What made you fly into that passion?" he asked, leading him back to the end of the jetty, and, still holding him prudently with one hand, he fumbled with the other for his whistle and blew a shrill and prolonged blast. Over the smooth water of the roadstead came in answer a faint cry from one of the ships at anchor.
"You oughtn't to be here alone," he said. "Oh, why not?" she replied with a laugh. "I'm old enough to take care of myself." The wind had begun to moan; waves tide-borne against the jetty made a hollow booming, and at moments scattered spray. "How black it is to-night!" Iris added. "It will rain. There! I felt a spot."
Elsewhere there were people waiting, eating buns out of paper bags, and here in the shop the sun lighted the backs of rows of second-hand novels and down in Treliss the water was, very gently, lapping the little wooden jetty. Oh! the silly jumbling of things in this silly jumbling world! And then he began to look more closely into it as it concerned himself. He saw with amazing clearness.
The lady was a gentle being of surpassing beauty, with black eyes, jetty hair and brilliant complexion; there was little of the characteristics of the East in her appearance, though she seemed to be quite at home beneath the Indian Sun.
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