Book 2, Chapter 6

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​‌​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​‌​‌​​​​‌​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌⁠In Which Captain Armine Pays His First Visit to Ducie.

Yes! it is the morning. Is it possible? Shall he again behold her? That form of surpassing beauty: that bright, that dazzling countenance; again are they to bless his entranced vision? Shall he speak to her again? That musical and thrilling voice, shall it again sound and echo in his enraptured ear?

Ferdinand had reached Armine so many days befo