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It had shoals off its embouchure; and these, he rightly enough fancied, would induce Captain Cuffe to be wary. As the evening approached the wind began to decrease in force, and then the people of the lugger lost all their apprehensions. The spars had all stood, and Raoul no longer hesitated about trusting his wounded mainmast with a new yard and sail.
They were preparing for the first catch of the season next day; he gave orders to his steward to have ready plenty of wine and malt brandy. Galambos, the old fishing overseer, predicted a large haul. One good sign was that the lake had frozen so early. At this time, just before spawning, the fish come up the gulf in shoals. It was a still better omen that Herr von Levetinczy had come himself.
But Claude de Chauxville accomplished steersman through the shoals of human nature, especially through those very pronounced shoals who call themselves women of the world Claude de Chauxville knew the value of the slightest change of manner, should that change manifest itself more than once.
"The best navigator is sometimes puzzled by a hazy observation, and many an old seaman has taken a fog-bank for solid ground. Since you are not in the courts, Sir, I wish you joy; for it is running among shoals to be cruising there, whether as judge or suitor.
It is further remarkable, that most of the old salmon return to the sea before it is proper for the young shoals to attend them, yet that a few old ones continue in the rivers so late, that they become perfectly emaciated by the inconvenience of their situation, and this apparently to guide or to protect the unexperienced brood.
Action the first thought, or perhaps the first impulse, on earth! The barbed hook, baited with the illusions of progress, to bring out of the lightless void the shoals of unnumbered generations! "And I, the son of my father, have been caught too, like the silliest fish of them all." Heyst said to himself. He suffered.
The girl's inquiry concerning a locality in New Hampshire suddenly recalled them, and recalled the motive with which Lynde had planned the dinner. Flemming flushed with vexation to think he had lent himself to the arrangement. "I have spent parts of two summers at the Isles of Shoals," he said.
From their point of view, decrepitude, senility, dotage stared them in the face, while the bright voyage of life which they were resolved to make only together, was threatened with shipwreck among the shoals of interminable delay. It was at this juncture of affairs that they came to me, as fine-looking a young couple as ever I saw.
This, then, is the case of the man; he either discovers that on further acquaintance the qualities he believed in were not so palpable as he thought, or, if there, marred in their exercise by opposing and antagonist forces, of whose existence he knew not, he thinks he detects discrepancies of temperament, disparities of taste; he foresees that in the channel where he looked for deep water there are so many rocks, and shoals, and quicksands, that he fears the bark of conjugal happiness may be shipwrecked upon them; and, like a prudent mariner, he resolves to lighten the craft by “throwing over the lady.” Had this man married with all these impending suspicions on his mind, there is little doubt he would have made a most execrable husband; not to mention the danger that his wife should not be all amiable as she ought.
"Never heard of her," responded the voice, "we're hard aground on one of your Long Island shoals it seems." "That's what yer are," exclaimed the captain, "how come yer ter be huggin' the shore so hard?" "Trying to avoid a collision with another vessel." "Are yer all right?" bellowed the captain. "Seem to be.
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