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"Take the child," she said; "I will follow you," and then as they disappeared, with a wild cry the poor woman flung herself over after them. In the mean time the captain and some of the hands and passengers had ascended to the hurricane deck, and when the America sank, the force of the waves separated the deck from the hull, and it floated off, a frail support for the little group it carried.
Greatly to my delight I recognised young Mango. Tears dropped from his eyes as he took my hands. "O massa, so glad! so glad!" he exclaimed, showing that he had not forgotten his small knowledge of English. "And Leo?" I asked, taking him by the hand; "where is he?" "Gone! gone!" he answered. My heart sank as I heard this. "What! dead?"
Garth's head became confused; he was no longer sensible of the passage of time. Only his will kept his legs at their work. Drowsiness crept over him; and with it a growing sense of the uselessness of struggling further. He fought it for a while, but with subsiding energy. His knees began to weaken under him; he sank down.
No wonder my heart sank when I saw this. Glancin' wildly around me, as people will do when they are scared, I saw the smooth place I was in gettin' smaller and smaller, for the kerosene was evaporatin', as it will do even off woollen clothes if you give it time enough.
"And do you really think that?" he said, in a voice subdued and anxious. "Indeed I do," said Mrs. Murray, in a tone of certain conviction. Macdonald sank back on his pillow, and after a moment's silence, said, in a voice of pain: "Oh, but it is a peety she did not know! It is a peety she did not know. For many's the time before before her hour came on her, she would be afraid."
A servant took his weapons and what was left of his pack, Master Jonathan insisted upon his drinking a small glass of wine to refresh himself, and then he was left alone in the imposing drawing-room of Mr. Hardy. He sank back in a deep chair of Spanish leather, and shutting his eyes took several long breaths of relief. He had come back safely and his escape seemed marvelous even to himself.
Tom shuddered crawled up to the old lady shut his eyes made up a horrible face, and kissed her, while Mr. and Mrs. S. stood by, convulsed with laughter. Five minutes afterwards, Tom entered the gardener's lodge, pale, weak, and trembling, and sank into a chair. "Give me a glass of water, Phebe!" he gasped. "Dear, what has happened?" asked the little woman.
Cecil took it wearily, broke the envelope, and read a scrawled, miserable letter, blotted with hot tears, and scored out in impulsive misery. The Lady Venetia went slowly away and when next they met it was under the burning sun of Africa. Alone, Cecil's head sank down upon his hands. "Oh, God!" he thought. "If it were anything anything except disgrace!"
"My poor lad God help me that I am no more fit to break to you this awful news." "For God's sake!" cried Gerald, and sank into the chair my lord drew him to, where he sat himself down beside him, the tears rolling down his lined cheeks. "Both both your parents!" he cried. "God give me words! Both both! At Pisa where they had stopped a malignant fever.
"We shall give the Dons the `good-bye," he shouted out to his wife below. Kitty quickly came on deck, and I saw how thankful she felt. Gradually our enemies' sails sank beneath the horizon, and at length we had the satisfaction of losing sight of them altogether.
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