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The jerking spar smote them in the ribs; once or twice the reefing tackle beneath it was torn from their hands; but they mastered the sail, tying two reefs in it, to reduce its size; and the craft drove away with her lee rail just awash. "You'd better go down and get some crackers," Vane advised his comrade. "You'll find them rolling up and down the floor.
I wish I could see you and give them in person.... Good-bye, my precious child. Give much love to everybody, and believe me, "Your affectionate father, "R. E. Lee." From the same place, on December 2d, he writes to my mother: "I received last night, dear Mary, your letter of the 12th, and am delighted to learn that you are all well and so many of you are together.
Mercifully it was Edgar, not Polly, who found her in her accustomed place on the cushions, lying with closed eyelids and smiling lips. It was half past five. . . . Polly must have gone out at four, as usual, and would be back in half an hour. . . . Yung Lee was humming softly in the little kitchen. . . . In five minutes Edgar Noble had suffered, lived, and grown ten years.
Both of these officers, disappointed in the British service, looked forward probably to greater success in the patriot cause. Lee had been at Philadelphia since his visit to Boston, and had made himself acquainted with the leading members of Congress during the session. He was evidently cultivating an intimacy with every one likely to have influence in the approaching struggle.
Captain Lee directed me, with a portion of my men and a large detailed working party, to construct a battery that night, in a position he had selected on the heights we had gained that afternoon. This was a work of some difficulty, owing to the rocky nature of the ground and the small depth of earth in some places none, and nowhere more than a few inches.
The brig, however, I was glad to see, was boxing the compass some three miles astern of us, and about a point on our lee quarter.
At this period there were two parties among the officers. Washington had his warm friends and supporters. Lee and Gates had theirs. Colonel Burr was of the latter. The merits of the question will not be discussed; and the subject will only be referred to so far as Burr is concerned.
She turned the paper over, to find the other side close-packed with writing. Miss Lee: In the last cabin but one is a prisoner, your friend Sheriff Flatray. He is to be shot in an hour. I have offered any sum for his life and been refused. For God's sake save him somehow. Simon West. Jack Flatray here, and about to be murdered! The thing was incredible.
There he stopped, and I knew enough to understand that we were in some peril unless a shift of wind came very soon, since the shore was under our lee now, if by good luck we were not carried straight into the great river itself.
By God!" he exclaimed, mournfully, after a short pause, "life is foul! Foul like a lee forebrace on a dirty night. And yet. And yet. One must see it clear for running before going below for good. Now you attend to what I said," he added, sharply, "if you don't want to quarrel with me, my boy." "I don't want to quarrel with you," murmured Almayer with unwilling deference.
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