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When the Reliance, the Constitution and the Columbia were holding trial races off Newport to decide which one of these yachts should defend the America's cup; when the tone of the Japanese press as to Russia's actions in Manchuria was beginning to grow ominous; when the Jews of America were drafting a petition to the Czar; and when it was rumored that the health of Pope Leo XIII was commencing to fail: at this remote time, the Musgraves gave their first house-party.
Cavendish died, from grief perhaps as much as from hardships, before he reached the English coast. One year after the return of the companions of Barentz, two ships, the Mauritius and the Hendrik Fredrik, with two yachts, the Eendracht and Espérance, having on board a crew of 248 men, quitted Amsterdam on the 2nd July, 1598.
It was his word for all that incomprehensible running in and out of shops that women went in for. "Has Fleur got her summer dresses?" "You don't ask if I have mine." "You don't care whether I do or not." "Quite right. Well, she has; and I have mine terribly expensive." "H'm!" said Soames. "What does that chap Profond do in England?" Annette raised the eyebrows she had just finished. "He yachts."
He took the keenest interest in the contest, and described to me the build and sailing qualities of the different yachts entered, and expressed his opinion as to which would win, and why. From this he passed to the city government and the recent election like a true New Yorker, his chief interest centred in the city politics and not in the national elections.
The lounge was small Kanchatka-class vessels had originally been intended as couriers, not yachts but it was quite comfortable, with deep-pile carpeting, and a large viewscreen now displaying a sunset landscape Valla was fond of. She and Kainor started to rise as Thark entered, but settled back at his gesture.
The craft not in the race had anchored near the Penobscot, and on board of all the yachts the interest in the result was most intense. "I'm afraid it will be no race," said Sam Rodman, who was now the chairman of the judges. "The commodore will put the Skylark through, whatever the weather," replied Frank Norwood.
And it's a strange thing for them to choose this cove if they are just cruising along the coast." "There weren't any yachts here last year when we were camping," said Margery. "But it is a lovely spot, and it's public land along here, isn't it?" "No, not exactly. It won't be used for a long time, I expect, but it has an owner.
With it, one can see the witches of Salem Village sailing out of those little square windows, which look as if they were made on purpose for them, or stroll down to Derby's wharf and gaze at "Cleopatra's Barge," precursor of the yachts of the Astors and Goulds and Vanderbilts, as she comes swimming into the harbor in all her gilded glory.
She said Sir Gilbert was not likely to come to harm he'd been sailing yachts, big and little, for many a year, and he'd no doubt gone further on this occasion than he'd first intended. I pointed out that he'd Mr. Moneylaws with him, and that he'd been due at his business early that morning. She laughed again at that, and said she'd no doubt Sir Gilbert and Mr.
Seized by a sudden whim, she rang her bell, breakfasted at an unusual hour, and nine o'clock found her, with her skirts flying, on the road above the cliffs that leads to the Fort. The wind had increased to a gale, and as she stood on the rocks the harbour below her was full of tossing white yachts straining at their anchors. Serene in the midst of all this hubbub lay a great grey battleship.
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