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The Trader's Wife【電子書籍】[ Louis Becke ]

＜p＞ Brabant's wife was sitting on the shady verandah of her house on the＜br /＞ hills overlooking Levuka harbour, and watching a large fore and aft＜br /＞ schooner being towed in by two boats, for the wind had died away early＜br /＞ in the morning and left the smooth sea to swelter and steam under a sky＜br /＞ of brass.＜/p＞ ＜p＞ The schooner was named the _Maritana_, and was owned and commanded by＜br /＞ Mrs. Brabant's husband, John Brabant, who at that moment was standing on＜br /＞ the after-deck looking through his glasses at the house on the hill, and＜br /＞ at the white-robed figure of his wife.＜/p＞ ＜p＞ "Can you see Mrs. Brabant, sir?" asked the chief mate, a short,＜br /＞ dark-faced man of about thirty years of age, as he came aft and stood＜br /＞ beside his captain.＜/p＞ ＜p＞ "Yes, I can see her quite plainly, Lester," he replied, as he handed the＜br /＞ glasses to his officer; "she is sitting on the verandah watching us."＜/p＞ ＜p＞ The mate took the glasses and directed them upon the house for a few＜br /＞ moments. "Perhaps she will come off to us, sir?"＜/p＞ ＜p＞ Brabant shook his head. "It is a terribly hot day, you see, Lester,＜br /＞ and she can't stand the sun at all. And then we shall be at anchor in＜br /＞ another hour or so."＜/p＞ ＜p＞ "Just so, sir," replied the mate politely. He did not like Mrs. Brabant,＜br /＞ had never liked her from the very first day he saw her a year before,＜br /＞ when Brabant had brought her down on board the _Maritana_ in Auckland,＜br /＞ and introduced her as his future wife. Why he did not like her he could＜br /＞ not tell, and did not waste time in trying to analyse his feelings. He＜br /＞ knew that his old friend and shipmate was passionately fond of his＜br /＞ fair young wife, and was intensely proud of her beauty, and now, at＜br /＞ the conclusion of a wearisome five months' voyage among the sun-baked＜br /＞ islands of the Equatorial Pacific, was returning home more in love＜br /＞ with her than ever. Not that he ever talked of her effusively, even＜br /＞ to Lester, tried and true comrade as he was, for was naturally a＜br /＞ self-contained and somewhat reserved man, as one could tell by his＜br /＞ deep-set, stern grey eyes, and square jaw and chin.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。

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