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I'll get well 'nd help yo' ef I ken; ef I don't, yo'll make it easy, nuff, without me." "Indeed I cannot," said Sedgwick. "You must brace up and get well, for I tell you, dear old Tom, that I can see better than you, and I have worked out a plan which is going to be a delight for you." "Maybe so, Jim," said the sick man, and dozed off into a troubled sleep.
"I think I noticed you on my bridge with a revolver in your hand," the Englishman told him dryly. "Yes, sir. But I fired in the air, except once when I shot the fireman who was killing Mr. Sedgwick over the wheel." I turned in astonishment to Blythe. "That explains it. Some one certainly saved me. If you didn't it must have been Smith." "That's one point to your credit," Blythe admitted.
"It is far more easy for them to come to us than for you to go on board," I observed. "Let us wait patiently; perhaps as the night advances the gale will abate." Still the wind blew as hard as ever. At length, just as Mr Sedgwick had gone back to the house to look after the girls and Frau Ursula, a shout reached our ears.
"Yes," he said, interrupting her, "it was Sedgwick, and it was splendidly done, too. It was, by Jove!" "Honest?" asked Grace. "Honest, and I will deliver your message." Blushing scarlet, Grace sprang up and began to plead. Browning would promise nothing except that he might possibly put the matter off a little while.
This possible result was prevented by the flank movement of General Sedgwick, and some gratitude for assistance so important from his able lieutenant would have seemed natural and graceful in General Hooker. This view of the subject does not seem, however, to have been taken by the Federal commander.
But the "transition" rocks, underlying the "secondary" system that Smith studied, were still practically unexplored when, along in the thirties, they were taken in hand by Roderick Impey Murchison, the reformed fox-hunter and ex-captain, who had turned geologist to such notable advantage, and Adam Sedgwick, the brilliant Woodwardian professor at Cambridge.
Hist, we must always be brave and self-forgetful enough to do our duty. I am going now to see Margaret." She walked a few steps, then turned back and said: "Why would it not be the right thing for Mr. Jordan and Margaret to be married before you leave?" "I believe it would," said Sedgwick, "only that I have planned that we would give them a great wedding in London."
We should therefore have but a little way to carry it. We agreed to take Mr Thudicumb there the following day, and if he agreed with us, to lose no further time in laying the keel for our vessel. A little further on we came in sight of the cliff on which we had seen the birds. No sooner did we point them out to Mr Sedgwick than he exclaimed "Yes; those, from their flight, must be frigate-birds.
The efforts which the enemy were now making to break through our flank on the left at White Oak Swamp, were, by this timely arrival of Sedgwick, thwarted. Had the confederates succeeded in this, the retreat of Keyes' corps and that part of Heintzelman's on the ground must have been cut off, and our army destroyed.
And old man Jenvie, with a hearty welcome and jolly laugh, declared that I served him exactly right when I floored him; that it had made a better man of him ever since, and that he was glad to welcome me back to England." Sedgwick listened, and when Jack ceased speaking there was silence for a full minute, until Jack said: "What are you thinking of, Jim?"
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