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It is needless to say that, in almost all cases of similar hard squalls and gales, the latter step, though attended with more appalling appearances is, in reality, the safer of the two, and the most generally adopted. Scudding makes you a slave to the blast, which drives you headlong before it; but running up into the wind's eye enables you, in a degree, to hold it at bay.
But for his observant curiosity, and the skill with which he managed to introduce himself into the salons of Paris, this story would not have been colored by the tones of truth which it certainly owes to him, for they are entirely due to his penetrating sagacity and desire to fathom the mysteries of an appalling condition of things, which was concealed as carefully by the victim as by those who had brought it to pass.
My eyes could not close this night." Poor Mrs Potter meekly obeyed. How strangely the weather had changed her! Even her enemies and she had many would have said there was some good in her after all, if they had seen her with a tear trickling down her ruddy cheek as she thought of her sailor boy. Day broke at last. The gale still raged with an excess of fury that was absolutely appalling.
The body was horribly burned and the sailor had evidently crept in there in his agony to die. "On the arrival of the Roddam at St. Lucia the ship presented an appalling appearance. Dead and calcined bodies lay about the deck, which was also crowded with injured helpless and suffering people.
He was there, lashed and saturated with the salt spray, the briny taste of it on his lips, the roar and tumult in his ears the height to which the breakers rose, and, looking over one another bore one another down and rolled in, in interminable hosts, becoming at last, as it is written in that wonderful chapter of David Copperfield, "most appalling!"
I should not lack subjects for my investigations that day. The day ended early. At four o'clock I arrived at Clamart; it was almost night. The view of the cemetery, with its large, new-made graves; the sparse, leafless trees that swayed in the wind, was desolate, almost appalling. A large, open pit yawned before me. It was to receive to-day's harvest from the Place de la Révolution.
Pamphlets were circulating in the States warning voters against all who supported the Secretary of the Treasury. It was one man against odds of appalling strength and resource; for by common consent both of friends and enemies Hamilton was the Federal party. Did he fall, it must go; all blows were aimed at him alone. Could any one man stand for ever an impregnable fortress before such a battery?
He took out an exquisitely fresh handkerchief and touched his forehead because it was damp. His eyes were still appalling, but his voice suddenly dropped and changed. "I have allowed myself to feel like a madman," he said. "It has been a rich experience good for such a soul as I own."
If you want to see Captain Pendarves, I will speak to him; but if not, I really think you had better be getting on, for it's late." "I was thinking of stopping awhile," said I humbly, "with my grandfather. You see, I'm Nicol Pendarves." Had I said, "I am the Prince of Darkness," the announcement could not have wrought a more appalling change in her.
It was another French and Indian victory like that over Braddock, though it was not marked by the destruction of an army, and Robert's heart sank lower and lower. He knew that it would be appalling news to Boston, to Albany and to New York. The Marquis de Montcalm had justified the reputation that preceded him. He had struck suddenly with lightning swiftness and with terrible effect.
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