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Updated: June 2, 2025
Nan lay wakeful and restless, watching the moonlight steal across the floor and lie palely on the bed and on Gerda's waxen face and yellow hair. The pretty, pale child, strange in sleep, like a little mermaiden lost on earth. Nan, sitting up in bed, one dark plait hanging over each shoulder, watched her with brooding amber eyes. How young she was, how very, very young.
But the Tree shook its head. "My roses are yellow," it answered; "as yellow as the hair of the mermaiden who sits upon an amber throne, and yellower than the daffodil that blooms in the meadow before the mower comes with his scythe. But go to my brother who grows beneath the Student's window, and perhaps he will give you what you want."
"I'm sorry for her like the little mermaiden of Hans Andersen, she is ready now to dance upon knives for the possession of a soul! Well, she'll win her soul all right, but God grant the winning of it doesn't end in tragedy!" He stood for a moment gazing into vacancy with a half-tender, half-cynical smile on his lips.
"But if we return not from our adventure," ended Sir Mortimer, "if the sea claims us, and upon his sandy floor, amid his Armida gardens, the silver-singing mermaiden marvel at that wreckage which was once a tall ship and at those bones which once were animate, if strange islands know our resting-place, sunk for evermore in huge and most unkindly forests, if, being but pawns in a mighty game, we are lost or changed, happy, however, in that the white hand of our Queen hath touched us, giving thereby consecration to our else unworthiness, if we find no gold, nor take one ship of Spain, nor any city treasure-stored, if we suffer a myriad sort of sorrows and at the last we perish miserably "
I shaded my eyes with my hand and stared seawards. "Do dress," I said absently. "We shall dress when we want to," said Daphne sharply. I turned to see the Mermaiden reach the path. A good start is everything. "If you really mean that," I said slowly, "I'll send your other clothes back again." Then I raised my voice: "Porter!" I cried. "Sir!" came from above us. "Behold, now "
Far away they see the graveyard of Inch Kenneth, the stones pale in the moonlight. And what song will she sing now, that Ulva and Colonsay may awake and fancy that some mermaiden is singing to bewail her lost lover?
She praised the beauty of the bird's- nest, and kissed the little mermaiden to find if her lips tasted of salt water; but then she said, "Don't break any more of the silk, dear children, else we shall have no ears of corn in the field, none to roast before our picnic fires, and none to dry and pop at Christmas-time next winter."
If every day taught me more to admire Captain Marmaduke, every day bade me the more and more to congratulate myself upon being blessed with such a comrade as Lancelot. Nevertheless, the best part of the business was the presence of Marjorie. She was a true child of the sea. She loved it as if she had been such a mermaiden as old poets fable.
"Love to you? Yes, I am." She looked me up and down for a moment. "And this is the man," she said slowly "this is the man" "Who said he was not in love with you, and that he didn't want never to leave your side again. Yes, it is. I might have known better than to say a thing like that. All the same, it wasn't meant for a challenge, Mermaiden." She looked at me with a mischievous smile. "And now "
Everyone went to old Lutey, and when it was found that he had power over witchcraft, too, he became the most important man in the whole country. Lutey had been so rude and rough to the mermaiden when he parted from her, that no one would have been surprised if she had avenged herself on him somehow, and punished him severely. But no, she was true to all her promises.
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