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The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn

CHAPTER VIII
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Sailed a fortnight ago.

And all your doing.

Poor boy, I wonder where he is now." Where is he now?
Under the cliffs of Madeira.

Standing on the deck of a brave ship, beneath a rustling cloud of canvas, watching awe-struck that noble island, like an aerial temple, brown in the lights, blue in the shadows, floating between a sapphire sea and an azure sky.

Far aloft in the air is Ruivo, five thousand feet overhead, father of the great ridges and sierras that run down jagged and abrupt, till they end in wild surf-washed promontories.


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