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Then the tide began to set toward Western Europe. Isolated from the other European states by her religion, Russia had suffered alone. No Europe sprang to her defense as to the defense of Spain from the Saracens. Not until Poland and Hungary were threatened and invaded did the Western Kingdoms give any sign of interest. Then the Pope, in alarm, appealed to the Christian states.
"No child would ever respect and love her father as Bella does if he was not good to her. He will turn up." Just then Tom called from outside the door of the girls' shack. "What say to a moonlight dip off the Point?" he asked. "The tide is not very low. And I missed my splash this morning." "We're with you, Tommy," responded his sister. "Wait till we get into bathing suits."
The girl's heart beat with a little sense of pleasure as she looked. Her feet crept slowly a little farther into the room. A great tide of pleasure was really just outside her heart, and would have rushed in and overwhelmed it in waves of joy had she but opened her heart's doors to it; but the shadow of Murad was on the bolts and locks, and she felt afraid.
"You are rich and he is poor," was the keynote of her thoughts, repeated from minute to minute. "And it is gold gives you the right in the world's eye to despise him!" she apostrophized the vanished Laura, clothing gold with all the baseness of that person. Now, when one really hates gold, one is at war with one's fellows. The tide sets that way.
They worked on unfalteringly hypodermics, heat, rubbing, oxygen, all those things with which man seeks to deceive himself, and for which the foe, with the tolerance of power, is willing to wait. But their faces were changing. The call of the outgoing tide, that tide over which human determination has not learned to prevail, was coming close.
"Too far away," she declared. "There was a wild sea last night," I answered, "and such a tide as I have never seen here before." "What are you doing with it?" she asked, pointing with her whip. "John Hefford is bringing a wagon," I answered. "I suppose he had better take it to the police station." She wheeled her horse round. "I am glad that it is no worse," she said.
This I understand to be no more than the sets of the tide, as going out, or coming in; but I afterwards understood it was occasioned by the great draught and reflux of the mighty river Oroonoque; in the mouth of which river, as I thought afterwards, our island lay; and that this land, which I perceived to the W. and N.W. was the great island Trinidad, on the north point of the mouth of the river.
"'Ho! they cried exulting. 'Ho! Dick Savage the smugler caught at last! "Dick Savage gave one proud and defiant laugh, and, bringing his tide hands over his hed he bit the rope with one mighty bite. "'Ho! ho! he cried, throwing back his proud hed, 'Ho, ho! You dirty dogs!
There are too many striking arguments in her favor, thrown by the surging tide of circumstances upon the surface of life's agitated waters, to allow a doubt to assail her.
At length papa calculated that the tide had turned. We were on the point of putting the vessel's head to the northward when a thick mist, driving up from the chops of the Channel, completely enveloped us, while the wind rapidly increased, as of course did the sea.
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