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"'Some sail-needles and a ball o' twine, I hollered back; 'we got everything else. You should just a-heard him cuss " and one of Captain Bob's laughs rang through the room. "Them's two things I'd forgot didn't think o' them in fact till the mainsheet give 'way. "Well, he chucked 'em aboard with another cuss. I hadn't no money to pay no salvage.
It was curious to stand on that deck and recognise it all, bit by bit; a place against the rail where I'd been fond of smoking by starlight, and the corner where an old chap from Sydney used to flirt with a widow we had aboard. A comfortable couple they'd been, only a month ago, and now you couldn't have got a meal for a baby crab off either of them.
Night fell like a soft mantle and we forged on, into the darkness, chancing what might befall. What impressed me among the people aboard was the apparent lack of anxiety for personal safety. Past sufferings and the great future issue were the predominant thoughts. The dock at Calais was crowded with anxious friends and Belgian soldiers.
"A British cruiser," he ejaculated, "and coming right toward us. If she keeps on her course we are sure to be seen." Frank sprang to the little sail and tore it down. Then each lad picked up a coat, and standing at his full height, waved the garment and yelled lustily. For some moments this was unrewarded. Then the boys saw signs of excitement aboard the cruiser. and a big gun boomed
Then the thought of the pyramids came to them all, and De Beauxchamps, who had come aboard the Ark, and who was always moved by sentimental considerations, proposed that they should spend a few hours here, while he descended to inspect the condition in which the flood had left those mighty monuments. Cosmo not only consented to this, but he even offered to be a member of the party.
His wife and he started home with the impatience of their years, rather earlier than they had meant to go, and they were silent for a little while after they left the flag-station where Hinkle and Clementina had put them aboard their train. "Well?" said Claxon, at last. "Well?" echoed his wife, and then she did not speak for a little while longer. At last she asked,
After a great deal of such Discourse he dismist the Captain and his Company, who took their leave and came aboard. Captain Swan having seen the two Letters, did not doubt but that the English did design to settle a Factory here: therefore he did not much scruple the honesty of these People, but immediately ordered us to get the Ship into the River.
I shall see that a crate of the choicest fruit is placed aboard your steamer. Accept them with my compliments, and when you partake of them think of me." O'Reilly did think of General Antuna, not only when he was escorted to the railway station at daylight, but when he and Branch took their seats and their guards filed in behind them.
They were pretty much by the head in those days, and it was a dark outlook before them, when young Webster signed the Vesper's articles as first officer and went aboard, with all that the old man could scrape together for a venture, and with the future of his family hanging in the balance.
His crew aboard the sloop had agreed upon that point with extreme vehemence and, to a man, had attempted to dissuade him from the mad project upon which he was launching himself among the Mormons in their island stronghold.
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