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Sure, if they's westerly winds in the spring, an' the ice clears away in good season, we'll be havin' the mail-boat north in May. Come, now! 'twill not be later than June, I 'low. An' I'll have that doctor ashore in a hurry, mark my words, when the anchor's down. That I will!" "'Tis a long time," said my mother.
"One of whom?" "One of those to whom I could forgive everything. You both are. Good night, Rupert. Good night, Edgar." Awaking at 5.30 the next morning, I heard a noise as of the anchor's cable being hauled in. The engines, too, were throbbing, and overhead there were rattling and movement. I tumbled Doe out of his top bunk, telling him to get up and see the last of England.
"The wind blows warm and the wind blows fair, Oh, the wind blows westerly Our jibs are up and our anchor's in, For the Duncan's going to sea. And will you wait for me, sweetheart? Oh, will you wait for me? And will you be my love again When I come back from sea? "Oh, sway away and start her sheets And point her easterly It's tackle-pennant, boom her out And turn the Duncan free.
"Why, what could come truer nor that pictur o' the cock wi' the big spurs, as has got its head knocked down wi' th' anchor, an' th' firin', an' the ships behind? Why, that pictur was made afore Christmas, and yit it's come as true as th' Bible. Why, th' cock's France, an' th' anchor's Nelson an' they told us that beforehand." "Pee ee-eh!" said Mr. Craig.
"After a while I heard some one cry out, 'The anchor's away, which as I afterwards learned, meant the anchor had been lifted from the bottom; and then the sailors all scattered to obey an order to do something, which I had not the least idea of, with a sail, and with some ropes, which appeared to me to be so mixed up that nobody could tell one from the other, nor make head nor tail of them.
You could see it with half an eye and hear it with one ear." "'Up your granny, she says to him," Sparrowhawk went on. "'Why, we haven't arrived yet, much less got started. Wait till the anchor's down before you get afraid." "That's what she said to me," Munster proclaimed. "And of course it made me mad so that I didn't care what happened.
It would be rather a bad thing for Cuba, for instance, if, at this particular juncture in its affairs, your father were clapped in prison and kept there for a couple of years." "Well, yes, I suppose it would," agreed Carlos. "Anchor's aweigh, sir!" reported Perkins, at this moment, as the steam windlass, after slowing down until it nearly stopped, suddenly started to clank at racing speed.
The yacht fell off the wind, and drifted astern. I shouted, and had the sense to hoist the reefed foresail at once. Davies had her in hand in no time, and was steering south-west. Going aft I found him cool and characteristic. "Doesn't matter." he said; "anchor's buoyed. 'We'll come back to-morrow and get it. Can't now. Should have had to slip it anyhow; wind and sea too strong.
There's a righteous judge above, an't there? He minds me no more than a porpoise. Yes, yes, he's a-going; the land crabs will have him, I see that! his anchor's a-peak, i'faith."
"Anchor's apeak, lad, and the hatches down," said the stranger, in the peculiar drawling voice which the New Englanders had retained from their ancestors, the English Puritans. "And when do you sail?" "As soon as your foot is on her deck, if Providence serve us with wind and tide. And how has all gone with thee, Amos?" "Right well. I have much to tell you of."
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