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Updated: May 9, 2025
It was Angela's, and she was singing snatches of an old-fashioned sailor-song, one of several which Arthur had taught her: "Fare ye well, and adieu to all you Spanish ladies, Fare ye well, and adieu to ye, ladies of Spain, For we've received orders to return to Old England, But we hope in a short time to see you again.
He gave them, then, a cheery sailor-song, which brought in its train a series of anecdotes from the recent war. Old Jacob, under the influence of the prevailing good-fellowship and the good cheer, had become uncommonly lively for him, and would even put in a word now and then. But every attempt to make him tell a story himself failed.
Then we heard voices singing together in a sailor-song which had a refrain not quite suited to the day, according to common opinions, having a refrain about a lad who sailed away on bounding billow and left poor Jane to wear the willow; but what's a lass's tears of brine to the Spanish Main and a flask of wine?
As he spoke he glanced again at Bet, who was leaning her cheek on her hand. Neither he nor Hester could catch any reflection of her face, which was completely hidden. "We'll talk to her presently," whispered the elder woman. "Now push the table aside, Will, and let's have a sailor-song together, just for good luck." "No, let's sing 'Barbara Allen," said Will.
The parrot, Polynesia, was sitting in the window looking out at the rain and singing a sailor-song to herself. She stopped singing and started to listen. "You see, Doctor," the Cat's-meat-Man went on, "you know all about animals much more than what these here vets do. That book you wrote about cats, why, it's wonderful! I can't read or write myself or maybe I'D write some books.
It is delightful to live, as I did when a child, within sight and sound of the sea; but I suppose it is only those who really live upon the world of waters, sailing away in a swift ship, day after day, for thousands of watery miles, and seeing nothing but the two oceans, "the blue above and the blue below," as that same sailor-song says, who can really know anything of its vastness.
Just then a merry sailor-song was heard. The bark of the Ice Bird appeared on the beach to fetch the passengers. "Jacopo," exclaimed Monte-Cristo aloud, "listen!" Jacopo stood up in the bark, and looked closely at the count, who called out some words in Maltese dialect to him.
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