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Nothing was wanting in my mate to revive and encourage her; opening her lips, and putting some broth into her mouth with a spoon. But not having strength to speak, she lifted up her head with much difficulty, intimating that it was now too late! at the same time pointing to the youth her son, as though she desired him to do what he could to save the lad; and in a little time after she died.
He murmured over and over again to me, as though obsessed by the words, "Does yoh know where yoh am, mate? Lawd de Golden Bough! de Golden Bough!" There came an ominous flapping of canvas aloft. "He done gib her too much wheel!" said the mulatto to me. "Lawd help him!"
I guess she went, all right, and that scoundrel is ashore by this time." "Had a bad name in Castalia, didn't he?" "Oh, a little more or less that I heard of, but what's that in a fisherman? When the men come in have them go through all the bait." Pete fired the old rifle, and the crew at work began to pull in through the choppy sea. "Hello!" cried the mate, looking behind him.
"'Wonders will never cease! he exclaimed. 'What do you think are on the island? "'I couldn't guess if I were to try from now till next hatching season, said his mate; 'and I beg you will not keep me in suspense. I am not equal to the slightest trial of the nerves. It is quite enough to be a mother. "'The captain and one or two more men are here, said the albatross. 'What do you think of that?
"It does me ra-al good, mister, it dew!" said Mr Lathrope to the first mate, who was intently watching the object of general interest, as if he could not take his eyes off it.
"He didn't buy it, he only chose it," said the other, having recourse to her handkerchief again. "He went outside the shop to see whether there was one he would like better, and when I came out he had disappeared." "He must have met with an accident," said the mate, politely. "I saw him to-night," said the lady, tersely.
“Oh, we have seen no signs of natives!” the mate said impatiently, “and there mayn’t be any within miles and miles of us, probably not nearer than those hills; for I believe it is there that they principally do what cultivation there is—in the first place, because it is cooler, and in the next place because there are, we know, tremendous swamps in the low land of Sumatra, though whether this is Sumatra or not I cannot say.”
Away I went, my head buzzing with the complicated order, and yet I had a very tolerable notion of what was to be done. The unreeving might have been achieved by any one, and I got through with that without difficulty; and, the mate himself helping me and directing me from the deck, the new rope was rove with distinguished success.
"My name is Strong, and I'm going with my father as far as Penzance." "You may go with your father as far as Shanghai if you like, young man," said the mate angrily; "but I'm not going to have my deck turned into a kennel, so you'd better take your dog ashore." Mark stood staring as the mate walked away to give some orders in an angry tone to another gang of sailors working aft.
Plain-featured and without manner, lie was no mate for this sparkling coquette, whose charm was of the kind which grows with exercise.
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