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At last they alighted on the kidney stones of the courtyard, and Baynes, the master, of the homestead, grave of countenance and flustered of manner, gave them welcome. In the spacious, stone-flagged hall, the doctor found Lord Gildoy a very tall and dark young gentleman, prominent of chin and nose stretched on a cane day-bed under one of the tall mullioned windows, in the care of Mrs.
But that it was no more than a mask for his fury and his venom was plain to all. From that unpromising beginning matters had not improved; rather had they grown worse. Blood's thoughts were upon this and other things as he lounged there on the day-bed. He had been a fortnight in Port Royal, his ship virtually a unit now in the Jamaica squadron.
On a cane day-bed that had been set for him on the quarter-deck, sheltered from the dazzling, blistering sunshine by an improvised awning of brown sailcloth, lounged Peter Blood, a calf-bound, well-thumbed copy of Horace's Odes neglected in his hands.
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