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Updated: June 13, 2025
And there are many beautiful girls in Holland and other countries, who ask nothing better than to become Jonkheeresses. Robert came on board with us as a matter of course in starting for Zeeland. Has he not more right than I to the deck of "Mascotte," as the cousin of the owner and the fiancé of her stepsister?
It took us till evening to get there, and as we were to sleep on the boats, rather than risk the hotel, I proposed to Alb that we should start again early the next morning, before the ladies waked. "There can't be much to see at Assen," said I, "and if, after he'd been given the slip, my peppery Scotch uncle tumbled to the idea of 'Lorelei' and 'Mascotte' being one "
Every large city in Italy and Germany has practically its own opera troupe. In full season it is grand opera, out of season it is comic-opera, not the American kind; Martha, The Bohemian Girl, The Mascotte, The Grand Duchess, and the like. And oh! my boy, the homeliest chorus you ever dreamed of seeing; but they can sing. It's only the ballerina who must have looks and figure. Poor angel!
We had not gone far, when I spied another motor-boat, larger than ours, but not so smart, in harbor, and I stared with all my eyes, trying to make out her name, for she had not been there when we came in; but "Mascotte" flew by like a bird much faster than she ever goes by day, in the water-traffic, and I could not see it.
She pictured a broken-hearted man, and her own heart ached for him. "You did right, Septimus," she said very gently. "But of what use can I be to him?" Septimus said: "He's the one to tell you that." "But do you think he knows? He didn't before. He wanted me to stay as a kind of Mascotte for the Cure simply sit still while he drew influence out of me or something. It was absurd."
I stayed for a long time, until the press had broken, and we were going on at full speed once more. Then I went to a window of the kitchen, which Phyllis so much admired, and looked out. I could see the deck of "Mascotte," and Brederode and Nell, who were still alone there together. "Well, well!" I repeated idiotically; "it's I who did that. If it hadn't been for me but I don't know.
Then it occurred to her that it was imprudent to tell this to her boy, and she added, gruffly: "Shut up and go to sleep." The music-box in the reception-room, set going by the hand of one of the boarders, commenced to tinkle that sentimental air from La Mascotte, the duet between Pippo and Bettina: Will you forget me, gentle swain? Then all was silent.
And, goldarn it, how he does dread it! Yet he goes, faithful soul that he is. He goes, let us say, to the Pavilion Mascotte no dancing, but plenty of drinking and music and food which opens at two and stays open until four, when it shuts up shop in order that another place in the nature of a cabaret may open.
The long, narrow, and rather sinuous channel out of Tampa Bay was marked by a line of buoys and skeleton wooden frames resting on driven spiles; but there were no lights for the guidance of the mariner, except one at the outer entrance, ten or twelve miles from the port; and if the Mascotte had not been provided with a powerful search-light of her own she would hardly have been able to find her way to sea, as the night was cloudy and the buoys were invisible.
If Aunt Fay had indeed been on board "Lorelei," re-named "Mascotte"; if the "M.," late "L.," had been Brederode's boat, and he had really been flirting with my aunt through the waterways of Holland, according to Sir Alec's wild impression, I couldn't have been more anxious to save her from his jealous wrath by giving him the slip.
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