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"Oh, madam, my dearest madam," exclaimed the Admiral in a voice broken with feeling, "how am I to thank you? What words do your angelic goodness leave me for the conveyance of my gratitude?","Yes, but we are all so different from the English. We have no pretty fair hair in Ireland, or at least very little of it.",Betty gazed shyly at her inquisitor. Her brown eyes sparkled with the adventure of meeting a real live piannerist, as she called him. Dinner was over and Mr. Zalhambra stood before the fire in the drawing-room grate. Stooping to warm his large white hands over the flame, his hypnotic eyes reflected strangely the glow of the fire. He watched Nell Gordon as she sat stroking the flowing fair tresses of Betty.,"You do not wish him to be hanged for piracy, even if abduction be not a hanging[Pg 382] matter," said Captain Acton with a smile in his eyes as he met the Admiral's.,CHAPTER XXII. FOR THE DEFENSE.,“Lucky stiff!” he said pleasantly. “Beat me to it, didn’t you?”,Mona blushes painfully.,She sprang forward as the second window slowly moved and a muffled figure stood on the balcony.,Beneath her sober, chasten'd reign.,He bowed as though to the applause of an audience, and looked the better pleased with Mr Lawrence for having heard him.,“What do you mean? Are we going to swim the rest of the way?”,"Now you are making a mystery out of a plain, common-sense question," he said, irritably. "We all know that Maurice is in love," here he raised his eyes suddenly, and looked keenly at his friend, "with Lady Meg Brance.".