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Captain Coles had brought his doctor to see him, and it had been pronounced that the best chance of saving him was a sea-voyage. The Douro had just received orders to return to England, and Coles had offered to take home both the friends as guests, though there was evidently little hope that our brother would reach any earthly home.
"Well, Arthur, what are you and Agatha plotting together? You both look serious enough." "Nothing, Mildred that is, only another sea-voyage." Mildred glanced at him uneasily. She did not like the tone in his voice. "I have a bit of bad news for you, Arthur.
"Can't say exactly," replied the other. "I think some one told me his affairs in China require looking after, and his daughter's health necessitates a long sea-voyage." "Health!" exclaimed Edgar, striving to look and speak in a comparatively indifferent manner. "She was quite well when I saw her last."
A sea-voyage will not give a man the nerve to put aside cheap pleasure; emigration has to be done before we climb the vessel; an aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.
Here, he would have said if he had spoken his thoughts, was a young man just come into a fine estate, a magnificent estate in fact, and one of the finest positions in the country, and the very first thing he thinks of, is to hurry off on a long sea-voyage to a half-barbarous country, without once stopping to consider that if he were to be drowned, or killed in a railway accident, or lost in the woods, the estate might fall into Chancery, or at the best go to a woman.
How differently his life must now be ordered! Until he went on board of the ship in Valencia, the thought of calling a girl so good, sensible and loving as Isabella his own, rejoiced and inspired him, but during the solitary hours a sea-voyage so lavishly bestows, a strange transformation in his feelings occurred.
Le roi est mort; vive le roi! Heiresses may cry it like kingdoms." "I thought," said Edward, meaningly, "the colonel had better taste." "Do you not know that my friends are my friends because they are not allowed to dream they will do anything else? If they are taken poorly, I commend them to a sea-voyage Africa, the North-West Passage, the source of the Nile.
"That's impossible, sir you forget my work!" "Never mind your work, my boy: leave it for a while, try a sea-voyage, go round the world, get quite away from these associations." "But I might come across the Jinnee again," objected Horace; "he's travelling, as I told you." "Yes, yes, to be sure. Still, I should go away. Consult any doctor, and he'll tell you the same thing."
He greeted me with a look that was not wholly surprise at my early return, that seemed to have in it something of gladness. "Strafford," I said, "I've made up my mind to go to Europe." "I have been thinking for some time, Mr. Paret," he replied, "that a sea-voyage is just what you need to set you on your feet."
And the mercy-loving duke long reigned with his beloved Isabel, the happiest of husbands and of princes. They were both born in one hour, and in one hour they were both in danger of perishing, for they were shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria, as they were making a sea-voyage together.
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