Typing progress

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All right, I've now typed eight more chapters of Arctic Raoul (only one of those tonight!) and proofread one. Chapter titles are provisionally as follows:

Chapter 13	On Open Water	4241 words
Chapter 14	Derelict	3025
Chapter 15	Hard Labour	2628
Chapter 16	Hope from Afar	2854
Chapter 17	Crisis Point	3666
Chapter 18	Ice and Water	2553
Chapter 19	Along the Floes	2572
Chapter 20	Disaster and Surprise	4354

Most of them quite short. (Previous chapter lengths.)

And here, for the record, is the anecdote about Raoul and Madame Valerius' underwear that was excised from the rewrite of Chapter 1 ;-p

He had not even blenched at the task of obtaining new small-clothes for Madame Valerius in Lübeck, armed as he was with only a few words of the language; and the old lady, delivered safely into the hands of a capable middle-aged female with a suitable supply of voluminous cotton garments for her to point at, had returned for a happy half-hour or so almost to her former self. Christine had been so grateful to Raoul that she could have kissed him.

But she had not. She could not forget that terrible cry on the night when their lips had met for the first and only time, or the ring that had slipped from her finger as if by magic in the moment of that embrace. And even back in Lübeck she had known that this moment of parting would come for them both.