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The fellow took it, and seemed to be turning away, when, with a suppressed sob, she caught him in her arms, murmuring incoherent endearments through her tears. The black scudding clouds left the sky-clear for a moment overhead and Selwyn felt a contraction of pain in his heart. The woman was Elise, and the man her brother Dick. Breakfast at Roselawn was a studiously inconsequential meal.
The gay white fleet, with its precious cargo of noble men and fair ladies, sped swiftly onwards through Old AEgir's kingdom; and it seemed as if Queen Ran had forgotten to spread her nets, so smooth and quiet was the sea; and the waves slept on the peaceful bosom of the waters: only Ripple and Sky-clear danced in the wake of the flying ships, and added to the general joy.
First, Raging Sea entered the wide hall, and sat by the Ocean-king's side; then Billow, then Surge, then Surf, and Breakers; then came the Purple-haired, and the Diver; but AEgir's two youngest daughters, Laughing Ripple and Smiling Sky-clear, came not at their father's beck, but lingered to play among the rocks and in the open sea.
On a day in early autumn Queen Ran, with her older daughters, Raging Sea, Breaker, Billow, Surge, and Surf, went out to search for plunder. But old AEgir staid at home, and with him his younger daughters, fair Purple-hair, gentle Diver, dancing Ripple, and smiling Sky-clear.
She lacked all that a pretty wrinkle or two might have given. There was no shadowy melancholy in her sky-clear eyes. She was gay indeed, and had a certain childish humour; but she had none of that humour which comes of the resigned perception that the world is out of joint, and that you were never born to set it right. These characteristics I had yet to find in woman.
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