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In a few weeks this ice became several feet thick; and the snow drifted up her hull so much that it seemed as if she were resting on the land, and had taken final leave of her native element. Strong hawsers were then secured to Store Island, in order to guard against the possibility of her being carried away by any sudden disruption of the ice.
When the Smeaton drifted on the 2nd of this month such a spar would have been sufficient to save us till she could have come to our relief. Sunday, 20th Sept. The wind this morning was variable, but the weather continued extremely favourable for the operations throughout the whole day.
He had evidently been a very ordinary medical student, and drifted incontinently to the topic of the music halls. He told me some anecdotes. "Left it all," he said, "ten years ago. How jolly it all used to be! But I made a young ass of myself, played myself out before I was twenty-one. I daresay it's all different now. But I must look up that ass of a cook, and see what he's done to your mutton."
In Motley this was heightened by that feeling of astonishment, of wounded faith, which all Americans with English friendships experienced in those days, and which he, whose English friendships were many, experienced in peculiar degree. I drifted about with him in his gondola, and refreshed myself, long a-hungered for such talk, with his talk of literary life in London.
The doors were open on that particular morning, and the high, thin cries of seagulls quarrelling under the stern drifted through almost unceasingly. Forward, the white-enamelled bulkhead was pierced by two entrances.
How often in fancy I have pursued them down the valley and watched them until they drifted out of sight beyond the hill! If you should ever come by my farm you, whoever you are take care lest I board you, hoist my pirate flag, and sail you away to the Enchanted Isle where I make my rendezvous. It is not short of miraculous how, with cultivation, one's capacity for friendship increases.
This would not do; she must get herself in hand. "The fact is, Lee, I'm not in Ruth's confidence. Haven't been for some considerable time. We've drifted a little apart." "Only a little?" "Only a little I hope." The cigarette Bryant held had gone out. Presently he glanced at it, then crushed it in his palm and dropped it into a coat pocket. "Don't fence with me, Imogene," he said.
I had little hope that the country would ever recover, but my father, stout-hearted as ever, had already begun anew, and after helping him that summer and fall I again drifted west to my brother's farm. The war had developed a restless, vagabond spirit in me.
There is thrill and inspiration simple, natural, and earthy in the Canyon where the Cheyenne cut the hills; but this was a different thrill that slowly grew to a rumble in Jim's heart as he felt the current floods of mind, of life, of sin, of hope that flowed from a million springs in that deep Wabash Canyon that carved in twain the coming city of ten million hopes that are sprung from the drifted ashes of a hundred million black and burnt despairs.
Mattie stayed a long time; and before she went of course other callers had drifted in.... "Are you going to Sue Louise's bridge to-night?" demanded Mattie, continuing to inspect her with evident curiosity. "Oh, Mats! I forgot all about it horrors!... And I've made another engagement!" "That means you don't want to go, Cally. You know it does...."
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