During the voyage no further allusion was made by either to what
had passed. By the next morning Florimel had yet again recovered
her temper, and, nothing fresh occurring to irritate her, kept it
and was kind.
Malcolm was only too glad to accept whatever parings of heart she
might offer. By the time their flight was over, Florimel almost felt
as if it had indeed been undertaken at her own desire and motion,
and was quite prepared to assert that such was the fact.
CHAPTER LVII: THE SHORE
It was two days after the longest day of the year, when there is no
night in those regions, only a long twilight, in which many dream
and do not know it. There had been a week of variable weather,
with sudden changes of wind to east and north, and round again by
south to west, and then there had. been a calm for several days.
But now the little wind there was blew from the northeast; and
the fervour of June was rendered more delicious by the films of
flavouring cold that floated through the mass of heat. All Portlossie
more and less, the Seaton especially, was in a state of excitement,
for its little neighbour, Scaurnose, was more excited still. There
the man most threatened, and with greatest injustice, was the only
one calm amongst the men, and amongst the women his wife was the
only one that was calmer than he.
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