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Updated: June 9, 2025
At the end of March Montcalm, with all his following, was ready to embark; and three ships of the line, the "Léopard," the "Héros," and the "Illustre," fitted out as transports, were ready to receive the troops; while the General, with Lévis and Bourlamaque, were to take passage in the frigates "Licorne," "Sauvage," and "Sirène."
They were aground on Sirene VIII, on which no human ship had ever landed before them, and they had stirred up a hornet's nest on Sirene IV, which had orbital eighty-gee rocket missiles in orbit around it with bust bomb heads and all the other advantages of civilization. The Aldeb was on the way with a fifteen-man crew.
"Si, signore, the daughter of Salvatore, the fisherman, who lives at the Casa delle Sirene." "Oh!" Artois paused; then he said: "Were she and her Salvatore is her father, you say?" "Her father, signore." "Were they at the Casa delle Sirene yesterday?" Artois spoke quietly, almost carelessly, as if merely to say something, but without special intention.
In return my sister placed upon her finger a ruby encircled with little diamonds; and I, taking off the gold medal I always wore on my neck, whispered: "Wear it for love of me." At an early hour my father had our trunks, baskets, and mats sent aboard the Sirène; and after many tears, and promises to write and to return, we took our leave. We had quitted St. James the 20th of May.
"They are in the Casa delle Sirene, signore. They are waiting to see if Salvatore comes back this morning from Messina." "And his daughter? Is she there?" "Si, signore. But she knows nothing. She was in the village. She can only cry. She is crying for the poor signore." Again that statement. It was becoming a refrain in the ears of Artois. "Gaspare is angry with her," added the fisherman.
One thinks of those Greek mariners coasting past this promontory, and pouring libations to the Siren into an ocean on whose untrampled floor the countryman now sows his rice and turnips. Paganisme immortel, es-tu mort? On le dit. Mais Pan, tout bas, s'en moque, et la Sirene en rit. They are still here, both sea and Siren; they have only agreed to separate for a while.
He and Patrolman Willis were on the way to the solar system Sirene 1432, where Krishnamurti's Law said there ought to be something very close to a terran-type planet in either the third or fourth orbit out from the sun. That planet would be inhabited by Huks, who were very much like humans. They knew of the defeat and forced emigration of their fellow-Huks in other solar systems.
The squad ship, for example, lifted off Sirene VIII for the second time. She'd been out once and come back for the second batch of multipoly objects. Sirene VIII was not a giant planet, by any means, but it was a respectable six thousand miles in diameter. The squad ship's sixty feet of length was a mote so minute by comparison that no comparison was possible. She headed in toward the sun.
They were dancing hard when we left, about half past six, and it was a pretty sight as we looked back from the gates long lines of sunlight wavering over the grass, figures in white flitting through the trees, distant strains of music, and what was less agreeable, the strident sound of a sirène on some of the autos. They are detestable things.
The thought of the sirens of legend flitted through her mind. They called men to destruction. She imagined them sitting among the rocks near the Casa della Sirene, calling calling to her Sicilian. Long ago, when she first knew him well and loved his beauty, she had sometimes thought of him as a being of legend. She had let her fancy play about him tenderly, happily.
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