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The little tug that was to tow the big ship out of the harbor was beginning to straighten the cable and churn the water into foam, but the hawser still held the vessel fast to the wharf. The captain shouted "Bob, Bob, get ashore and cast off the hawser." Bob now saw the long-waited-for opportunity and with alacrity sprang to the wharf, but not to release the hawser.
Besides, she liked to have her sister's companionship. It was on the last night of one of these protracted visits that Robert Stafford's wife found the long-waited-for chance to unburden her heart. She and Fanny had been to the opera and just returned home.
Her love and, quite as much, her girlish ambition had been crowned with violets and bays some weeks before, when the fever-heat of patriotism seemed to bring another passion in Harry Glen's bosom to the eruptive point, and there came the long-waited-for avowal of his love, which was made on the evening before his company departed to respond to the call for troops which followed the fall of Fort Sumter.
I was struck at the idea of the situation you have been in, while I, uninformed and so distant from you, was anticipating the long-waited-for pleasure to hear from you, and the still more endearing prospect of visiting you and presenting you the tribute of a revolution, one of your first offsprings. For God's sake, my dear General, take care of your health!"
But it was after five o'clock before a stir went round the pier, and a rush of officers towards a little wooden room at the foot of the gangway told that the long-waited-for official had arrived. "Well, we won't hurry," said Mr. Linton. "Let the married men get on first." There were not many who did not hurry.
It works and will prevail for a time; for a time but not for ever, unless indeed religion be all a dream, and our airy notions of ourselves a vision out of which our wise age is the long-waited-for awakening. It would be a weary and odious business to follow out all the causes which have combined to bring us into our present state.
With the abrupt suddenness that sometimes makes the long-waited-for event a real shock, came the news of the death of the poor old woman whose frail hand had held the wealth that Susan had coveted for Daniel Burton and his son. The two men left the next morning on the four-hundred-mile journey that would take them to the town where Nancy Holworthy had lived.
In the middle of my letter I got the long-waited-for opportunity to leave Ramelton behind and go up into the Donegal Hills.
Here he is now," he added, as the door swung open and the long-waited-for guest entered the room. The newcomer was unmistakably a man from Far Out; tall, wiry-framed, and very dark, and so spare and lean of figure that he did not seem to have an ounce of superfluous flesh anywhere. His face was as hard and impassive as a Red Indian's, and looked almost black by contrast with his white shirt-front.
Just as the first faint gleam of daylight stole into the little turret chamber, came the long-waited-for reply. The young man wrote down the few lines and passed them over. Crawshay, who had risen to his feet, glanced at them, nodded, and thrust the paper into his pocket. "That seems quite satisfactory," he said coldly. "Now ask the Blucher her exact course?" Robins sat for a moment motionless.
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