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I cannot help feeling that the proper time for departure had come; but this destroys the story and robs the comandante of his reputation for chivalry. As Miss Palett's gondola neared the grain-ship, Salemina, it seems, spied the commanding officer pacing the deck. "See," she said to her companion, "there is a gang-plank from the side of the ship to that small flat-boat.
He said he had heard that they covered a good deal of territory, and that the ministers' salaries were sometimes paid in pork and potatoes. That shows you the style of his retorts!" "I really cannot decide which of you was the more disagreeable," said Salemina; "if he calls, I shall not remain in the room." "I wouldn't gratify him by staying out," retorted Francesca.
"Francesca is very like that young man," laughed Salemina, "who, whenever he engaged in controversy, seemed to take off his flesh and sit in his nerves." "I'm not supersensitive," replied Francesca, "but when one's vocabulary is called picturesque by a Britisher, one always knows he is thinking of cowboys and broncos. However, I shifted the weight into the other scale by answering 'Thank you.
"The house has been sold, I suppose," said Salemina; "and for my part I envy the new owner his bargain. He is close to Piccadilly, has that bit of side lawn with the superb oak-tree, and the duke's beautiful gardens so near that they will seem virtually his own when he looks from his upper windows." At tea-time the same elderly gentleman drove up in a victoria, with a very pretty young lady.
On the 11th they say they paid out three shillings in telegrams, and I was at Maidenhead! Then because we love her and cannot bear to see her charming forehead wrinkled, we approach from our respective corners, and the conversation is something like this: Salemina. "You were not at Maidenhead on the 11th, Francesca; it was the 12th." Francesca.
"Ronald must have looked the future in the face when he asked you to marry him," I replied, "although it is possible that he looked only at you, and therefore it is his duty to endure your maiden incapacities; but why should Salemina and I suffer you to experiment upon us, pray?"
Salemina also retired to her virtuous couch, remembering that she was to visit infant schools with a great educational dignitary on the morrow. Francesca and I turned the gas entirely out, although we had been sitting all the evening in a kind of twilight, and slipping on our dressing-gowns sat again at the window for a farewell peep into the past, present, and future of the 'Brighthelmston set.
Suddenly we heard a familiar name announced, 'Lord Colquhoun, a distinguished judge who had lately been raised to the peerage, and whom we often met at dinners; then 'Miss Rowena Colquhoun'; and then in the midst, we fancied, of an unusual stir at the entrance door 'Miss Francesca Van Buren Monroe. I involuntarily touched the Reverend Ronald's shoulder in my astonishment, while Salemina lifted her tortoise-shell lorgnette, and we gazed silently at our recreant charge.
If one has been a devoted patron of the opera or student of music, one has an Italian vocabulary to begin with. The very first evening after our arrival, Jack Copley asked Salemina and me to dine with him at the best restaurant in Venice. Jack Copley is a well of nonsense undefiled, and he, like ourselves, had been in Italy only a few hours.
"It is his youngest daughter," corrected Salemina, "the youngest daughter of his only wife, and the image of her deceased mother, who was, in her time, the belle of Dublin." She might well have been that, we all agreed; for this young beauty was quite the Irish type, such black hair, grey-blue eyes, and wonderful lashes, and such a merry, arch, winsome face, that one loved her on the instant.
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