47/49 By daybreak we shall be better friends." San Benavides also bade them farewell, with an easy grace not wholly devoid of melodramatic pathos. The dandy and the man of rags climbed down a rope ladder, the boat fell away from the ship's side, and the night took them. "Have you quarreled ?" "We had a small dispute as to the wisdom of landing you here," said Philip. He is a clever man, and he surely knows his own country." "Mr.Hozier!" cried Coke. |