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So it held on for a while, and then got safer, and there was more space for going betwixt cliff and flood; albeit it was toilsome enough, since for some way yet there was a drift of stones to cumber their feet, some big and some little, and some very big.
She did not understand, was never satisfied with allusions, and she had no gift for catching the drift of things. She could endure no peradventure in her conversation. She wanted plain speaking and to be literally sure. "Are you going to take it?" she asked abruptly. He could not bear to be checked in his course. He waved a hand and smiled at her.
Whoever might forget facts, or lose the drift of the argument, Sir William Follett never did; and when he had the last word, he was almost always irresistible.
"I knew it would end the way you wanted it, Frank," she said. "You were getting to mean more and more to me. I did not love you exactly and I did not worry a particle when you were away, but I sort of acquiesced in what seemed to be the inevitable. I know I am horribly to blame, but I took it for granted we'd drift on and on and this time, if you had asked me, I had made up my mind to say 'yes."
None of us felt like turning in. We all sat outside on the ground around a little fire. Toward midnight we heard voices; and a moment later Yank and Bagsby strode in out of the darkness. "Where's McNally?" Yank instantly demanded. "Hasn't he come in yet?" We told him we had seen nothing of the missing man. "Well, he'll drift in pretty soon," said Bagsby.
On clear days we could get an extended view in all directions from the mast-head, and the line of the pack was broken only by familiar bergs. About one hundred bergs were in view on a fine day, and they seemed practically the same as when they started their drift with us nearly seven months earlier.
The obscuring of the sun by the drift was the first thing that called the captain's attention to the altered state of the weather, and he at once gave the order "All hands shorten sail!" the mate rushing forwards to see the details properly carried out. The order did not come an instant too soon.
"The exercise kept me warm, and that's about the only good I thought it was doing, but it did help, didn't it?" "It certainly did," agreed Bobby. "My, but I'm hungry!" "So am I," said Jimmy. "Won't the sun feel good when it rises?" "I wonder which way we lie from home?" "South, of course, for that's the drift of the current. All the bergs drift south." "Yes, but how far?"
Now, although this is a very funny little story, you will not understand the drift of it at once. The frogs thought that they were looking in front of them; but as, when they stood up, their eyes were in the back of their heads, each was looking at his native place, all the while that he believed himself to be looking at the place he wished to go to.
I stopped him for a moment by saying that I thought, after all, he must be right, for according to geologists the world must have been a horrible place, and full of the most hideous creatures, before sin came and made it lovely. When he saw my drift, he strode up to me like well, very like his own God, I should think and was going to strike me.
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