Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Wild Gazelle, Vol. 2 of 3: And Other Tales
IT blows hard, and right in one's teeth, said a tall, strongly-built man, in years about thirty, pacing as well as he could, from the unsteady motion, the deck of a very handsome craft, felucca-rigged - that is, with three lateen sails, a custom peculiar to vessels in the Mediterranean sea.
Yes, returned the padrone; but I have seen it blow harder, if that's a consolation, Tomasso F ranchi.
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