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In her dark-blue dress, with the row of silver buttons down what was hip before the hipless age, the chest sufficiently concave and the silhouette a mere stroke of a hard pencil, Miss Selene Coblenz measured up and down to America's Venus de Milo, whose chief curvature is of the spine.
Laying these pieces of wood on the ground, I drew my canoe over them to the shore of Currituck Sound; then, by making up back-loads of the cargo, transported everything to the point of embarkation, which was just inside the mouth of a little creek. The row to Currituck Narrows was not difficult, as the north wind was a fair one.
This is the very first thing we've wished for that hasn't got us into a row. And there hasn't been the least little scrap of a row about this. Nobody's raging downstairs, we're safe and sound, we've had an awfully jolly day at least, not jolly exactly, but you know what I mean. And we know now how brave Robert is and Cyril too, of course, she added hastily, 'and Jane as well.
It was quite simply a row of rooms with a verandah in front of them all. But the interiors were furnished with matting for the floors, curtains to the windows, white iron bedsteads, running water and open fireplaces. "I'm sick of camping," said Welton. "This is our summer quarters for some time. I'm going to be comfortable." Bob sighed. "This is the bulliest place I ever saw!" he cried boyishly.
The circle closed, and pressed nearer and nearer to him; some who were in the foremost row whispered to each other, "He is blind!" "What a pity!" and "He looks very poor, what a ragged coat he wears!" said others. "He must be very old, for all his hair is white; and he must have travelled a great way, for his shoes are quite worn out," observed another.
"I've got to make arrangements about my boat being taken up the river." "Why not let my men row it back!" said the doctor. "Because I did not like to impose on your kindness." "Then they may take it?" "I shall only be too grateful," said Sir James. Nothing more was said till they had ordered and sat down to a snug dinner in the hotel, when Sir James opened the ball.
But what was still more curious, Flask you know how curious all dreams are through all this rage that I was in, I somehow seemed to be thinking to myself, that after all, it was not much of an insult, that kick from Ahab. 'Why, thinks I, 'what's the row? It's not a real leg, only a false leg. And there's a mighty difference between a living thump and a dead thump.
"Robert Drew, and two others." "Pelicans!" roared Amyas, "you have been round the world, and will you turn back from Westward-ho?" There was a moment's silence, and then Drew came forward. "Lower us a boat, captain, and lend us a caliver to make signals with, while I get my kit on deck; I'll after Captain Leigh, if I row him aboard all alone to my own hands."
"I would rather row out alone," said James, haughtily, with a disparaging look at Herbert. "Unfortunately that won't do as well. You must learn to row with one oar first." "Then suppose you get into the boat with me." "That won't do as well. I am much heavier than you. Now you and Herbert are about the same weight."
We only drowned two men last year. You see, we had to tow the boat up the river, and row across, as then we hadn't the wire. Just above, on this side, the boat hit a stone, and the current washed over her, taking off the team and two men." "Didn't you attempt to rescue them?" I asked, after waiting a moment. "No use. They never came up." "Isn't the river high now?"
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