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"I will bring you some flowers for your bowls, Elizabeth." It was just then that the yacht steamed into the harbor majestically, like a slow-moving swan. I picked out the name with my sea-glasses, The Viking. I handed the glasses to Nancy. "Never heard of it," she said. "Did you?" "No," I answered. Most of the craft which came in were familiar, and I welcomed them each year.
O Thou who holdest the winds in Thy fist, blessed be Thy glorious name for ever! Englishmen, Costa Ricans, Germans, Spaniards, Japanese, Irishmen, Americans gathered, never to meet again till the throne of judgment is lifted let us join hands to-day around the cross of Jesus and calculate our prospect for eternity. A few moments ago we all had our sea-glasses up watching the vessel that went by.
To-day they have been fishing for albatrosses. A few minutes after they caught the first one its carcase was flung overboard. Mr. Pike studied it through his sea-glasses, and I heard him grit his teeth when he made certain that it was not the mere feathers and skin but the entire carcass. They had taken only its wing- bones to make into pipe-stems.
The other's dark, graceful head was turned toward the fiery fête on shore, and his busy thoughts were with that lithe, dripping figure he had seen through the sea-glasses, climbing into a distant boat. For the figure reminded him of a girl he had known very well when the world was younger; and the memory was not wholly agreeable.
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