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Directly after dinner the preparations for an immediate start began; very much to the disgust of skipper and crew, who were not in the habit of working after dinner; but Montesma cared nothing for the short answers of the captain, or the black look of the men. Lesbia wanted to learn all about everything the name of every sail, of every rope.
'Send it to him yourself. I will have nothing to do with it. 'How dreadfully disagreeable you are, said Lesbia, pouting, 'just because I am marrying to please myself, instead of to please you. It is frightfully selfish of you. Montesma came in at this moment.
Lesbia's absence, and the idea that she was ill, gave the feast almost a funereal air. After dinner Smithson and Montesma sat on deck, smoking their cigars, and lazily watching the lights on sea, and the lights on shore; these brilliant in the foreground, those dim in the distance.
The soothing sound came nearer and nearer, close under the Cayman's quarter, and then a brown hand clasped the man-ropes, and a light slim figure swung itself upon deck, while the boat bobbed and splashed below. It was Montesma, who had not been expected till the racing, which was not to begin for two days. A faint, faint rose bloom flushed Lady Lesbia's cheek at sight of him; and Mr.
'Must you really go? pleaded Montesma, holding her hand just a thought longer than he had ever held it before. 'Ah, the little more, and how much it is, says the poet. 'Really and truly. 'I am so sorry. I wish you could have stayed on deck all night. 'So do I, with all my heart. This calm sea under the starlit sky is like a dream of heaven.
A slave ship, which could earn nearly twenty thousand pounds on every voyage, and which could make two runs in a year that was the trade for Don Gomez de Montesma, and he carried it on merrily for six or seven years, till the British cruisers got too keen for him, and the good old game was played out.
She and you are both happy in having escaped the degradation, the deep misery of a loveless union. I am glad yes, glad even of this shameful escapade with Montesma though it has dragged her good name through the gutter, glad of the catastrophe that has saved her from such a marriage. You are very generous in your willingness to forget my sister's folly.
'There is a good deal of the dolce far niente about this, said Montesma, presently; 'but don't you think we have been anchored in sight of that shabby little town quite long enough, and that it would be rather nice to spread our wings and sail round the island before the racing begins? 'It would be exquisite, said Lesbia.
She lay among her cushions with closed eyes, listening, drinking in those rich ripe notes as they came nearer and nearer, to the measure of dipping oars, 'La donna e mobile Nearer and nearer, until the little boat ground against the hull. She lifted her heavy eyelids as Montesma leapt over the gunwale, almost into her arms.
'It has not been paid for perhaps it never will be. The dinner was silent and gloomy. It was as if a star had been suddenly blotted out of the sky. Smithson, ordinarily so hospitable, had been too much disturbed in mind to ask any of his friends to stay to dinner; so there were only Lady Kirkbank, who was too tired to be lively, and Montesma, who was inclined to be thoughtful.
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