The Buccaneers

when she and Guy Thwarte had stood alone on the terrace before the house, and found not a word to say. Poor Nan St George — so tongue- tied and bewildered by the surge of her feelings; why had no one taught her the words for them?

the great old adventuress, seeing love, deep and abiding love, triumph for the first time in her career,

moved by the youth and passion of the lovers, and disgusted by the mediocre Duke of Tintagel, has secretly lent a hand in the planning of the elopement, the scandal of which is to ring through England for years.

but meanwhile the young Duchess of Tintagel has suddenly decided to leave her husband and go off with Guy, and it turns out that Laura Testvalley,

But though she is dazzled for the moment her heart is not satisfied. The Duke is kindly but dull and arrogant, and the man she really loves is young Guy Thwarte, a poor officer in the Guards, the son of Sir Helmsley Thwarte, whose old and wonderfully beautiful place in Gloucestershire, Honourslove, is the scene of a part of the story.

The three families embark together on the adventure, and though furiously jealous of each other, are clever enough to see the advantage of backing each other up;

Strangely enough, this lovely alien who had been swept into his life on a brief gust of passion, proved to have a respect as profound as his for the concrete realities, and his sturdy unawareness of everything which could not be expressed in terms of bank accounts or political and social expediency.

there was a stolid British baby upstairs in the nursery, and Mr. Robinson was richer than anybody she was likely to come across,

Certainly, he thought, he had married one of the most beautiful women in England.

“Well, I’m afraid they do sometimes. Miss Testvalley says things are never as bad as I think, or as good as I expect —