Sestrina: A romance of the South Seas

WHEN Sestrina, on the morning after the _Catholot_ had sailed from Port-au-Prince, awoke and found that she was far out at sea, she felt greatly depressed. She could hardly beli...

THE next day Clensy, Biglow, and Adams sat whispering together over a table in the small café chantant near Toujeaur. They all appeared calm enough after their adventure. Adams...

“HULLO, boy! how’s the wind blowing?” said the boisterous Bartholomew Biglow when he met Clensy a week after the young Englishman had betrayed Sestrina, through so carelessly br...

As well as possessing enormous cheek, he possessed plenty of money. That which surprised Clensy most about Biglow was his refined demeanour when he entered Haytian society. It s...

What do you mean, Hawahee?” said Sestrina as she gazed long and earnestly at her solitary companion. A strange look, as though of fright, was in his eyes. His handsome face was...

_A dusky maid stood ’neath a lone palm tree Down Makewayo beach, on Savaii Isles; A perfect shape and curved lips had she As stared her bright eyes o’er the lone sea miles; Maid...

_What greater wonder can the fates have planned Than this lone isle’s green palms and coral bars? That I—lost on a vast untravelled sea— Might stand astonished staring at the st...

_Come to me in my dreams, and then I’ll hear The music of your voice steal like a stream Thro’ some old forest where like thirsty deer My thoughts will haunt the banks—drink dee...

THE next day Hawahee walked into the space of Sestrina’s palm-sheltered kitchen, and said: “Sestra, I have made these things for you.” Sestrina gazed in surprise and delight on...

_I am the sad composer of all time; The ocean’s deep orchestral boom—my own! The singing birds and winds of every clime Without my ears would be as songless stone. The stars wil...

TWO nights after de Cripsny had given the three Englishmen the information about _vaudoux_ worship, Clensy, who had been haunting the vicinity of the presidential palace grounds...

A WEEK after the events of the preceding chapter, Royal Clensy found himself standing by the Erard pianoforte in President Gravelot’s home. Sestrina had suddenly developed a pas...

AFTER Sestrina had taken her sudden departure from the infatuated Clensy, she ran down the pathway by the fuchsia trees so that she might enter her home unobserved. She did not...

AFTER Sestrina’s experience with Lupo by the lagoon, everything went along quietly for a week, during which time she and Hawahee busied themselves by making their dwellings as c...

TWO days after Sestrina had surprised Hawahee before her image, he came to her and said: “Wahine, thou and I have tarried too long on this cursed isle, dwelling in the anguish o...

“NICE gal, that!” mumbled Adams, as he and Clensy hurried away from the crowd that still loitered before the presidential palace. They quickly made their way towards the palm-sh...

NOTWITHSTANDING the sorrow of the night, of mortal frailty and grief, the door of the East slowly opened, and dawn in silvery sandals stood on the threshold of those remote sail...

THE sad Hawahee was strangely happy that day in the thought that Sestrina had smiled over his perfidious spying on her! Sestrina could hear him singing his pagan melodies as he...

But through illness he had not filled in the usual form, and this, having been noticed by some alert official, had been the means of his dismissal from office. Even Bartholomew...