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I, for my part, ask no better than to suffer for my country!" "She thinks she knows, but she does not know," the Colonel continued quietly, unmoved by her words. "She cannot guess what it is to be cast adrift alone, a woman, penniless, in a strange land. And yet that at the best and the worst may be unspeakably worse must be her fate if this plot miscarry!
Sure enough the Indian had killed a deer, of which the Openings were full, and having brought it to the river, he had constructed a raft of logs, and placing the carcase on it, he had set his game adrift, taking care to so far precede it as to be in readiness to tow it into port.
"Unless I hire another auto, or you and the children go on by train," said her husband. "I shall have to stay here to bring our car on." "Oh, I don't want that! No, we'll stay at the hotel. But what about him?" she asked in a low voice, pointing to Bob Guess, who was talking to the twins. "That's so. We can't turn him adrift," Mr. Bobbsey agreed. "Well, I'll get a room for him at the hotel.
It would be difficult, he knew; but if Elsie were willing he'd try, for his kind heart recoiled from sending the little child who clung to him so confidingly adrift amongst strangers. No, he would not do so. After a while he turned to his wife, who had gone to the cradle where lay their six-weeks-old baby, and was rocking it, as the child had cried out in her sleep.
Women are the mischief that casts us adrift to chance." "Monsieur, we cast ourselves sometimes." "Dieu de Dieu! I doubt that. We should go straight enough if it were not for them." The Chasseur smiled again. "M. le Viscomte thinks we are sure to be right, then, if, for the key to every black story, we ask, 'Who was she?" "Of course I do. Well! who was she?
I had four pounds in my pocket at the time that I went adrift, which was more than sufficient, even if I had not intended to go and see my mother. A wherry came alongside, and Peggy Pearson and I stepped into it, after I had thanked the captain, and given a sovereign to the seamen to drink my health.
The rest of the crew, but two or three in number, had been carried as captives by the savages on the shore. Captain Gallop buried the corpse as reverently as possible in the sea, and then took the pinnace in tow, with the three savages barricaded in the cabin. Night came on, dark and stormy; the wind increased to a tempest, and it was necessary to cut the pinnace adrift.
He replied to the question as to where they had received their hurts that they were survivors of the Armada, and grumbled that it was hard indeed that men who had fought in the Netherlands and had done their duty to their country should be turned adrift to starve.
"Mercy on me! why, we are adrift," exclaimed the woman. "What shall we do? It's no use hailing, they'll never hear us; look well round for any boat you may see." "It is getting so dark that we shall not see far," replied I, not much liking our position. "Where shall we go to?" "Go to! clean out to St.
"It's all right, my papa went out in a boat and got 'em!" cried Freddie in his shrill, childish voice, for he heard what his father and Mr. Mason were saying. "I I don't understand," said the other lumber dealer, seriously. "Was there an accident?" "Oh, it wasn't anything," Mr. Bobbsey said. "When I went past your house, near the river, I saw the two girls adrift in a boat, not far from shore.
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