Last Voyage of The Valentina - extract

At that moment Thomas noticed a beautiful girl with long black hair and large, timid eyes. In her arms she held a wicker basket. He couldn’t help being drawn to the brown swell of her breasts, exposed by the low décolletage of her dress. She stood in the crowd yet seemed to have a space of her very own, as if she remained a little apart. Her loveliness was such that her image seemed more pronounced than the rest. The faces around her merged into one but hers was clear and perfect like the evening star in the nights sky. She was smiling, not the broad, bovine smile of the townsfolk but a gentle curling of the lips that reached her eyes and caused them to narrow slightly. A mere whisper of a smile. So subtle that it made her beauty almost hard to swallow, as if she were a figment of his imagination and not real at all. It was then that Thomas Arbuckle lost his heart. There on the quayside of the small fishing town of Incantellaria he let it go willingly.

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