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1 "Miss Bart is not going back to the yacht," she said in a voice of singular distinctness.
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2 Dorset, as if in obedience to Lily's imperative bidding, had actually returned in time for a late dinner on the yacht.
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3 At any rate, I know she's safe on the yacht, though I haven't yet seen her; but you see it was not my fault, Lily summed up.
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4 She had meant to drive down to the quay and regain the yacht; but she now had the immediate impression that something more was to happen first.
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5 It was past four already; and when a cab had dropped her at the quay, and she stood waiting for the gig to put off for her, she began to wonder what had been happening on the yacht.
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6 She had learned, on leaving her room, that Mrs. Dorset was still invisible, and that Dorset had left the yacht early; and feeling too restless to remain alone, she too had herself ferried ashore.
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7 She was vaguely touched by the names and scenes amid which she moved, and had listened to Ned Silverton reading Theocritus by moonlight, as the yacht rounded the Sicilian promontories, with a thrill of the nerves that confirmed her belief in her intellectual superiority.
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