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Updated: June 27, 2025
They would marry, he and she, and he would help her to forget the past. Manuela's reflections did not cause her to waste time. They were a mere accompaniment to her rapid action. Virginia had said they would soon be in the harbour. She must prepare herself to leave the yacht, and get ready to carry with her such things as were indispensable.
'Minds me ob de ole times!" "Get along with you," said Lawrence, with a laugh, as the warm-hearted black left the hotel. Thus these two parted. Little did they imagine what singular experiences they should encounter before meeting again. Soon after Quashy's departure Lawrence went to the door of Manuela's room, and, tapping gently, said "Dinner is ready, Manuela."
That night Pedro and his friend left the hut in a canoe, lighted by a brilliant moon. Before morning the latter returned alone. Meanwhile Lawrence had slung Manuela's hammock between two trees, with a fire on either side, yet screened from the chief camp-fire by a thick bush, so that though close at hand, and under his protection, she occupied, as it were, a separate chamber of her own.
"It is the fearlessness of innocence combined with ignorance," he muttered to himself one afternoon, as Manuela's horse, without apparent provocation, presented first its tail and then its nose to the sky. The Inca princess patted the playful creature approvingly, and induced it to adopt a bounding, indiarubber-like pace. In a few minutes this was reduced to a springy walk.
After an hour or two of braiding, she discovered that it suited Manuela's genius better than her own. The basket of splints was turned over to the willing handmaiden, and good-natured Marm Prudence showed Rita how to sew the braids together smooth and flat, and initiated her into the mysteries of crown and brim.
If you had peered under the veil, you would have seen that Manuela's dark eyes were swollen and discoloured about the lids, as though they had known a sleepless, tearful night.
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