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If he had been an officer, they would have been obliged to speak to him and live with him; but there was no reason why they should put themselves out for a corporal who is a person of no consequence unless his detachment is also at hand, with bayonets fixed, ready to convey a person to a place to which he would rather not be taken. "Is your kinsman ever sea-sick?" demanded Miss Nevil sharply.
The deputation sent to breakfast by the paradoxical family whose acquaintance he had made on terms of each forbidding intimacy, did not include the girl who had frankly provoked his confidence and severely snubbed it. He had left her brother very sea-sick in their state-room, and her mother was reported by her father to be feeling the motion too much to venture out.
My servants are afraid we shall be drowned, and have converted the boat into a cruiser. Do you remark how curiously it dances upon the crests of the waves? But, as it makes me feel sea-sick, would you permit me to turn my back towards them?" "You will observe, my lord, that in turning your back to them, you will have the sun full in your face."
This was very mortifying to her brother; but "Captain Li," who went in to see him every day, comforted him by telling him of old sailors he had known who were always sea-sick for the first few days of every voyage they undertook. The schooner was off Cape Hatteras before Mark felt able to leave his berth.
In these pleasing sensations, of which I had my just share, nature, overcome with fatigue, about eight in the evening resigned her to rest a circumstance which would have given me some happiness, could I have known how to employ those spirits which were raised by it; but, unfortunately for me, I was left in a disposition of enjoying an agreeable hour without the assistance of a companion, which has always appeared to me necessary to such enjoyment; my daughter and her companion were both retired sea-sick to bed; the other passengers were a rude school-boy of fourteen years old and an illiterate Portuguese friar, who understood no language but his own, in which I had not the least smattering.
Our passengers now made their appearance, and I had for the first time the opportunity of seeing what a miserable and forlorn creature a sea-sick passenger is. A well man at sea has little sympathy with one who is seasick; he is too apt to be conscious of a comparison favorable to his own manhood.
The tumult of passengers was speedily reduced to a limp and inert swarm of cold, wet, and sea-sick humanity. The cold and miserable weather clung to us long. In Paris it snowed heavily, and I was constrained to betake myself in a cab "chauffé," it is needless to remark to seek out a kindly dentist, the bitter east wind having sought out and found a weak spot wherein to implant an abscess.
Uncle Paul lowered the glass as he spoke, and turned his eyes thoughtfully upon his nephew, who had uttered a low peculiar sound. "Of being sea-sick, uncle?" Uncle Paul smiled. "I suppose that's what you call retaliation, young gentleman. Well, no, sir, I'm not afraid of that at least, not much.
Come, bitter conduct, come unsavoury guide! Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark. Romeo and Juliet "I have not finished," were the first words we heard, when order was restored, and we were all in a condition to listen again. "I had to relate what you have just heard, that you might understand what happened next.
By luck she found Knollys there and he produced bread and cheese and ship's biscuit from the steward's pantry. "I imagine you are hungry, miss," he said respectfully when she asked him to be sure to give her a lot. "No, I'm not. It's Mr. Farne in Number 8. He hasn't had a meal since he came aboard." "Sea-sick?" he said sympathetically.
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