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"THE PROGRESS OF THE SUNS".
News of the event had preceded us to the 'Fulvia', and, as we scrambled out on the ship's stairs, cheers greeted us.

Glancing up, I saw Hungerford, among others, leaning over the side, and looking at Mrs.
Falchion in a curious cogitating fashion, not unusual to him.

The look was non-committal, yet earnest.

If it was not approval, it was not condemnation; but it might have been slightly ironical, and that annoyed me.