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"My father, however, and the two boatmen hurried down to the shore, while I was despatched with the news to Merchant's Point. My mother asked Mr. Lovyes his name, that I might carry it with me. But he spoke in a dreamy voice, as though he had not heard her. "'There were eight of the crew. Four were below, and I doubt if the four on deck could swim.
And in the end she had her way. That night Robert Lovyes nailed the boards across the windows, and brought the door-key back to her; and that night, twenty years ago, she crossed the threshold. No man has seen her since. But, none the less, for twenty years she has lived between the brothers, keeping them apart." This was the story which Mr.
"Robert sprang forward with an oath, and then, as though the movement had awakened her, Mrs. Lovyes stepped in between the two men, with an arm outstretched on either side to keep them apart. "'Wait! she said. 'For what is it that you fight? Not, indeed, for me. To you, my husband, I will no more belong; to you, my lover, I cannot.
Lovyes, was directed across a little ridge of heather to Dolphin Town, which lies on the eastward side of Tresco, and looks across Old Grimsey Sound to the island of St. Helen's. Dolphin Town, you should know, for all its grand name, boasts but a poor half-score of houses dotted about the ferns and bracken, with no semblance of order.
Lovyes nor Robert remarked my presence, and as for John Lovyes, he rose from his chair as the pair approached him, stretched out a trembling hand, drew it in, stretched it out again, all without a word, and his face purple and ridged with the veins. "'Brother, said Robert, taking between his fingers half a gold coin, which was threaded on a chain about Mrs.
I was wrecked in a calm sea on the Golden Ball I was thrown up on Tresco no one on that ship escaped but myself. No sooner was I safe than the fog lifted "'You will stay? Mrs. Lovyes interrupted. 'No? "'Yes, said he, 'Jarvis Grudge will stay. "And she turned thoughtfully away. But I caught a glimpse of her face as we went out, and it wore the saddest smile a man could see. "Mr.
Lovyes as they sat over their breakfast in the parlour at Merchant's Point, he spoke with such huskiness as I never heard the like of. Mr. Lovyes took little heed to us, but went on eating his breakfast with only a sour comment here and there. I noticed, however, that Mrs.
"'But he does not carry it away, said I, taking his meaning. "'Sometimes sometimes," he snarled. "'That depends on how quick we are with the gaff." "'You! he laughed, and taking me by the elbows, he shook me till I was giddy. "'I owe Mrs. Lovyes everything, I said. At that he let me go.
It was about this time that Christina began to understand precisely what had happened. If ever a man's pleasures jumped with his duties mine did in the year 1744, when, as a clerk in the service of the Royal African Company of Adventurers, I was despatched to the remote islands of Scilly in search of certain information which, it was believed, Mr. Robert Lovyes alone could impart.
Lovyes, nor anything more than a short 'Good-day' with Mr. John. He worked, however, with no great regularity. For while now he laboured in a feverish haste, now he would sit a whole day idle on the headlands; or, again, he would of a sudden throw down his tools as though the work overtaxed him, and, leaping into his boat, set all sail and run with the wind.
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