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Updated: May 10, 2025
"Right?" he said, holding the point of his nose aside between the tips of his left thumb and first finger. "Guess it's about as right as law and wax can make it." "I don't mean that, sir. I mean. . . ." "What?" he said, facing round. Then trembling and stammering I told him. I did not love Lord Raa. Lord Raa did not love me. At first my father seemed unable to believe his own ears. "Postpone? Now?
E ei taua po ra, e haere ai hoe taata e hio i te rau Ti, ia i te oia i te rau Ti i te hauti raa mai te hauti ie te matai rahi ra, te o reira te raoere Ti e ofati mai, e tau mau rauti ra te afai hia i te mahana e haere ai te taata na roto i taua umu ra e i te hora maha i te popoi na e tutui hia'i taua umu ra. Ia ama taua umu ra, e ia puai roa te ama raa ei reira te tahua parau.
I told him three weeks ago that my father had come for me and we were going back to Ellan. "And then? What are you going to do then?" he asked. For a moment I felt ashamed to answer, but at last I told him that I was going home to be married. "Married? When? To whom?" I said I did not know when, but it was to be to the young Lord Raa. "Raa? Did you say Raa?
Ay I must have come of that old stock, long-settled in England, and, though born in a countryside cottage, the sea still ran so salt in my blood that I early found my way to ships to become a sea-cuny. That is what I was neither officer nor gentleman, but sea-cuny, hard-worked, hard-bitten, hard-enduring. I was of value to Raa Kook, hence his royal protection.
For the true reading of his character one has to go back to the day when he was a ragged boy and the liveried coachman of the "bad Lord Raa" lashed at his mother on the road, and he swore that when he was a man she should have a carriage of her own, and then "nobody should never lash her." He found Gessler's cap in the market-place and was no more willing than Tell to bend the knee to it.
I am taboo sacred as the sacred canoe-house under the floor of which repose the bones of heaven alone knows how many previous kings of Raa Kook's line. I know all about how I happened to be wrecked and be there alone of all my ship's company it was a great drowning and a great wind; but I do not moon over the catastrophe.
Certainly the birth was to be announced by the ringing of the big bell of the tower as signal to the country round about that the appointed festivities might begin. Day by day through September into October, news came from Castle Raa by secret channels. Morning by morning, Doctor Conrad was sent for to see my mother. Never had the sun looked down on a more gruesome spectacle.
But to make doubly sure I sent two personal telegrams, one to my dear one at Castle Raa and the other to my old people at home, asking for answers to Port Said.
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