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24 "All this," he said, "I owe to you. From the very beginning, you have given me nothing but good advice,"

"But that is not the best of it," she said, laughing. "You always took it"

The vessel carrying the aristocrats sailed away and away, with the admiral sitting on the stern, his stilts dangling in the water behind, as the ship moved on.