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No fall of waves was heard on the beach, no trickling of waters bubbled audibly from the idle stream. Now and then the cry of a sea-bird rose from the region of the marsh; and at intervals, from farmhouses far in the inland waste, the faint winding of horns to call the cattle home traveled mournfully through the evening calm.
Not quite subdued, for her heart and her ear were yet open to the voices of nature. The scream of a sea-bird reached her, as the creature was swept by on the blast. "That is for me," she said to herself, the blood returning to her stricken heart and pale cheek. "How God sends His creatures to teach us at the moment when we need His voice!
"There is good reason for that, mind you," was the next observation he caught, made in a somewhat lower tone, and accompanied by a doubtful laugh. "It is not for nothing that he has been out so constantly shooting sea-fowl about Torungen." "Would she be a sea-bird of that feather? Old Jacob, I should have thought, was not the kind of man "
The sweeps were now out, and the proa flew over the smooth water like a sea-bird, passed the raft, and was at first evidently gaining on the boats; but their speed soon slackened, and as the day passed, the boats, and then the pirate vessel disappeared in the southward; the distance between them being apparently much the same as at the commencement of the chase.
Valmai, if Providence ever arranged a marriage, it was yours and mine, dearest." "But, Cardo " "'But me no buts, my lovely white sea-bird. Nothing can alter the fact that you are my own little wife." "Yes, I know," said Valmai, "but if you love me as much as you say you do, grant me one request, Cardo." "A hundred, dearest; what is it?"
"We shall have to cut away the mizen-mast," observed the captain. "But we'll try and make head sail on her first." This was done. A suppressed shout of satisfaction showed that she felt its power, and away she flew like a sea-bird before the squall, the darkness of night coming on to bide all surrounding objects from their view.
He felt as if his cheek were resting against the breast of a white sea-bird, it was so warm and sleep-giving a single reddish feather in the middle of it recalled a dark memory. Gradually he sank off into a doze, and heard her singing a lullaby, which reminded him of the swell of the billows when it ripples up and down along the beach on a fine sunny day.
"Oh! if I had my gravity," thought she, contemplating the water, "I would flash off this balcony like a long white sea-bird, headlong into the darling wetness. Heigh-ho!" This was the only consideration that made her wish to be like other people. Another reason for her being fond of the water was that in it alone she enjoyed any freedom.
Mary and Annette came behind, and Mary pinched Annette's arm so sharply that she must have cried out aloud had it been possible for her to feel pain at that moment, instead of a personal exultation, flying wildly over the clash of astonishment and horror, like a sea-bird over the foam. In the first silent place they came to, Mary murmured the words: "Little Jane." Annette looked round at Mrs.
Poor maiden! bootless wail or vow "Have mercy, Jove be gracious, thou! Dread prayer was mine before!" What if the gods have heard and he, Lone victim of the stormy sea, Now struggles to the shore! There's not a sea-bird on the wave Their hurrying wings the shelter seek; The stoutest ship the storms have proved, Takes refuge in the creek.
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