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The Marchesino
jumped aboard. The machine in the stern throbbed. They rushed forward
into the blackness of the impenetrable night, the white of the leaping
foam, the hissing of the rain, the roaring of the wind. In a blurred
and hasty vision the lights of Frisio's ran before them, fell back
into the storm like things defeated. Hermione fancied she discerned
for a second the blind man's scarlet face and open mouth, the Padrone
at a window waving a frantic adieu, having only just become aware of
their departure. But if it were so they were gone before she knew--
gone into mystery, with Emile and the world.
The Marchesino inserted himself reproachfully into the cabin. He had
turned up the collar of his "smoking," and drawn the silk lapels
forward over his soft shirt-front. His white gloves were saturated. He
came to sit down by Vere.
"Madame!" he said reproachfully, "we should have waited. The sea is
too rough. Really, it is dangerous. And the Signorina and I--we could
have danced together.


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