CHAPTER XThe galleys went on to find their safety behind the harbour boom, and Ramegas landed on St. Elmo’s shore with Angelica at his side.
He did not have to seek the Grand Master, who had seen his approach, and met him upon the beach. He wore a wide-plumed hat, and a doublet and hose of indigo velvet, dark and rich, and finely cut, but now soiled, and having been torn in places and since stitched, showing the uses to which it had been put in the last days, yet it did not seem that he had been labouring much on this, for his ruff was white and clean, as was the lace at his wrists. But he was not one of those who need care for clothes, having his dignity in himself.
He listened while Ramegas said who he was, and explained that Don Manuel would follow after he had pleaded the Order’s cau
