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Sir Francis Vere! and then looking at Lionel rushed forward towards him with a cry of delight. Sir Francis Vere and Lionel stared in astonishment as the former's name was called; but at the sound of his own name Lionel fell back a step as if stupefied, and then with a cry of
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Geoffrey!
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It is indeed Geoffrey Vickars! Sir Francis Vere exclaimed.
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Why, Geoffrey, what miracle is this? We have thought you dead these six years, and now we find you transmuted into a Spanish don.
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I may look like one, Sir Francis, Geoffrey said as he shook his old commander's hand,
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I would do so were there ten times the work to be got through, Sir Francis replied.
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Assuredly I would not keep asunder for a minute two brothers who have so long been separated. I will breakfast with you in the morning and hear this strange story of yours; for strange it must assuredly be, since it has changed my young page of the Netherlands into a Spanish hidalgo.
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I am no hidalgo, Sir Francis, but a trader of Cadiz, and I own that although I have been in some way a prisoner, seeing that I could not effect my escape, I have not fared badly. Now, Lionel, come in. I have another surprise for you.