Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 12, 2025
He found Salissa a pleasant island and looked forward to great peace, when the Ida, her cargo unloaded, should sail away. He had only one real trouble. Not even Smith could find ice on Salissa. Mr. Donovan sighed over his own want of foresight. The patent freezer had been packed in the very bottom of the hold. Early in the third day the Queen tired of unpacking and arranging furniture.
The sea was almost calm. The island rose, clear outlined, from the blue water. There are some islands, as there are some complexions, which are best looked at in a light which is not too clear, which require a dimness, a little mist, to make them beautiful. Salissa Phillips would have said the same of Salissa's mistress was at its loveliest on a clear May morning.
A much duller man than Gorman would not have failed to discover that Phillips was deeply in love with the young Queen of Salissa. All talk worked back to her sooner or later. And Phillips became eloquent about her. With naïve enthusiasm he praised her beauty. He raved about the sweetness of her disposition. He struggled hard for words which would describe her incomparable charm.
Later on nearly every ambassador in Europe had a look at the "instrument" Gorman called it an instrument sometimes, sometimes a protocol and they were all baffled. The American ambassador in Megalia offered Gorman's cousin a post in the U. S. A. diplomatic service, a high testimonial to his abilities. Miss Daisy and her heirs became the independent sovereigns of the Island of Salissa.
In her were the Queen, Kalliope and a very dishevelled Madame Ypsilante. That lady was never, at any time of her life, an outdoor woman. When she travelled it was in the wagons-lits of trains-de-luxes, and in specially reserved cabins of steamers. Her journey to Salissa had been performed in far less luxurious ways and her appearance had suffered. Her complexion was streaky.
He did not like her habit of throwing things about in moments of excitement. He also lit a cigar. "I will make my breast clean of the whole affair," said the King. "Then you will understand and help us. The Emperor has spilt cold water all over Salissa that is over the sale of the island to the American."
At last, when the boat was getting near the steamer, Kalliope made a great effort. "It is once more," she said. The Queen jumped to a possible meaning of her words. The steamer, that steamer had been in the harbour of Salissa before, had been perhaps about some business similar to that which occupied her now. Kalliope, her eyes on the Queen's face, saw that she was making herself understood.
His devotion was like that of a frisky terrier which gambols round an adored mistress. Miss Daisy found him a most agreeable young man. It was he, and not Captain Wilson, who came to her one evening with the news that they might expect to sight Salissa next morning. Miss Daisy scarcely slept. At five o'clock she was on the bridge.
Phillips was a young man of practical mind, very little given to inquiring into causes and reasons. But he had a thoroughly British respect for the rights of property and the privileges of ownership. "Anyhow," he said, "he's no earthly right to dump his stuff here without asking leave. Salissa isn't his island." From the tap which he had already turned on the petrol was flowing freely.
The sea whispered round the island shores, but brought no news of the rushings to and fro of hostile fleets. The winds blew over battle-fields, but they reached Salissa fresh and salt-laden, untainted by the odour of carnage or the choking fumes of cannon firing. Donovan was probably the only one of the party in the palace who was entirely satisfied with this position.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking