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Just as the Ramsgate lifeboat was coming under the stern of the wreck and about to haul down foresail and shoot up alongside her, she was struck by a terrific sea. The Deal men saw this and shouted 'She's capsized! The Ramsgate lifeboat was indeed almost, but not quite capsized, and she was also shot forwards and caught under the cat-head and anchor of the wreck.
"The water is rushing in forward like a mill stream, sir; we have either started a but, or the wreck of the foremast has gone through her bows, for she is fast settling down by the head." "Get the boatswain to father a sail then, man, and try it over the leak; but don't alarm the people, Mr Kelson."
I remembered many things later that might have helped me, and did not. At the time, I was only completely bewildered. Save the wreck, the responsibility for which lay between Providence and the engineer of the second section, all the events of that strange morning were logically connected; they came from one cause, and tended unerringly to one end.
And now there could be no doubt that the scoundrels worthy of the most refined tortures that Chinese practice could devise were hastening down into the Tjon valley. There, amid the wreck of the train, they expected to find the fifteen millions of gold and precious stones, and this treasure they could carry off without fear of surprise when the night enabled them to consummate this fearful crime.
Although the contest was between General Grant, who on various decisive battle-fields had done everything to save the administration of which Mr. Seward had been a leading member, and on the other side, Governor Horatio Seymour, who had done all in his power to wreck it, Mr.
"Just think of that now!" he went on. "My railroad train gets in a wreck right near Lakeport, where I want to get off, and first I know I run into Mr. Bobbsey's children! Well, well! To think of that!" "Here comes daddy now!" cried Flossie, pointing to a figure walking over the snow toward them. "Oh, Daddy, I saw the train wreck!" yelled Freddie.
"I certainly should," replied the First Consul, "but the journey to Milan would occupy too much precious time. I prefer that the meeting should take place in France. My influence over the deputies will be more prompt and certain at Lyons than at Milan; and then I should be glad to see the noble wreck of the army of Egypt, which is collected at Lyons." On the 8th of January 1802 we set out.
'So you acknowledge that birds things of nature have their bad time? 'They profit ultimately by the deluge and the wreck. Nothing on earth is "tucked-up" in perpetuity. 'Except the dead. But why should the schooner be at our command? 'I shall be in Ireland. He could not have said sweeter to her ears or more touching. 'We shall hardly feel safe without the weatherwise on board.
The first of these songs must have followed an actual encounter with some woman or girl whose life had seemingly if not actually gone to wreck on the shore of love or passion. A little while later he came out and said, "Listen to this, will you, Thee?" He played and sang the first verse and chorus.
In his better days he had been erect of person, and even handsome; but the thraldom of the destroyer has brought him to the dust, a pitiable wreck. Tom has seen thirty summers, presents a full, rounded figure, and stands some five feet ten. He wears an old brown coat, cut after the fashion of a surtout, that might have fitted him, he says, when he was a man.
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