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If you don't find the sea too strange, you won't find Venice so." "I wish it would ever seem half as home-like!" cried the girl. "Then you find the ship I'm glad you find the ship home-like," said Staniford, tentatively. "Oh, yes; everything is so convenient and pleasant. It seems sometimes as if I had always lived here." "Well, that's very nice," assented Staniford, rather blankly.
Lydia looked away, and waited a moment before she spoke. "I don't know," she said. Then, impulsively, "Did you?" she asked. "No, honestly, I don't think I was," answered Staniford. "But I seemed to leave that impression on the company. I felt a little nasty, that was all; and I tried to hurt Mr. Dunham's feelings. But I shall make it right with him before I sleep; he knows that.
"It's hard to believe that," said Staniford, with a smile. Lydia looked at him. "Oh, I wasn't born in South Bradfield. I was ten years old when I went there to live." "Where were you born, Miss Blood?" he asked. "In California. My father had gone out for his health, but he died there." "Oh!" said Staniford.
The party at the hotel suggested that the young men should leave their ship and go on with them to Naples; Dunham was tempted, for he could have reached Dresden sooner by land; but Staniford overruled him, and at the end of four days they went back to the Aroostook.
Then he added, as if the unqualified praise might seem fulsome, "But if you'd been a sailor, you wouldn't have tried a thing like that. You'd have had more sense. The chances were ten to one against you." Staniford laughed. "Was it so bad as that? I shall begin to respect myself."
"Who in the world can she be?" "Oh, I don't know," returned Staniford, with a cold disgust. "I should object to the society of such a young person for a month or six weeks under the most favorable circumstances, and with frequent respites; but to be imprisoned on the same ship with her, and to have her on one's mind and in one's way the whole time, is more than I bargained for.
"Tha's right; 'sert on deck, 'joy landscape and pudding together, Rhine steamer style. All right. Be up there m'self soon's I get my coffee." He winked again with drunken sharpness. "I know wha's what. Be up there m'self, 'n a minute." "If you offer to go up," said Staniford, in a low voice, as soon as Lydia was out of the way, "I'll knock you down!" "Captain," said Mr.
I merely formulate your decisions after you reach them, if they're favorable." "Well, then, what is this one?" "Is it favorable?" "You said you would formulate it." She laughed again, and Staniford started as one does when a nebulous association crystallizes into a distinctly remembered fact. "What a curious laugh you have!" he said. "It's like a nun's laugh.
"Don't!" cried Staniford, in a hollow under-voice, which he broke through to add, "Go to sleep, now, Dunham, or keep quiet, somehow." Dunham was silent for a while, and Staniford continued his search, which he ended by taking the portfolio by one corner, and shaking its contents out on the table. "I don't seem to find it; but I've put it away somewhere. I'll get it."
"Did you notice that she well, that she blushed a little?" Staniford waited a while before he answered, after a gulp, "Yes, I noticed that." "Well, I don't know how to put it exactly, but I'm afraid that I have unwittingly wronged this young girl." "Wronged her? What the devil do you mean, Dunham?" cried Staniford, with bitter impatience.
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