Poleski has certainly failed to educate her as
regards taste in clothes. You saw how she was dressed when she came on
board--!"
Half an hour later the anchor was up, and they were cutting through the
white-crested waves. The girl pointed to a green headland on the left
that rose suddenly and overhung the water like a sentinel on guard.
"I have been watching that all the morning in the distance, and I could
think of nothing but the Winged Victory in the Louvre. You remember
how she stands on a rough-hewn pedestal at the head of the marble
staircase, and she is all alone against a dull red background. And as
one looks one goes back all those centuries, and sees her as she was on
the day the Greeks set her up to celebrate their great sea-victory. It
must have all looked just as it does to-day, those centuries ago in the
Island of Samothrace. There was a strong wind blowing, and the waves
met and raced and leapt together, and the sky was the same wonderful
colour that it is now, and there were wild birds hovering and screaming
round her.
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