Christine of the hills

Books by Max Pemberton.
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New York: DODD, MEAD & CO.
Max Pemberton
Christine of the Hills
BY MAX PEMBERTON
NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1897
CHRISTINE OF THE HILLS
We had been sailing for some hours with no word between us, but Barbarossa woke up as the yacht went about under the lee of the promontory, and with a lordly sweep of his brown-burnt arms he indicated the place.
“ Olà , excellency,” said he, “yonder is the pavilion of little Christine.”
I had called him Barbarossa, though heaven knows he was neither Suabian nor renegade Greek of Mitylene, but an old sinner of Sebenico who chanced to have a yacht to let and a week to idle through.
“Shew your excellency the islands?” cried he, when I had made him the offer. “ Madonna mia , there is no man in all the city that knows them so well! From Trieste to Cattaro I shall lead you with a handkerchief upon my eyes. Hills and woods and cities—they are my children; the Adriatic—she is my daughter. Hasten to step in, excellency. God has been good to you in sending you to me.”