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In the early part of the century the Nonjurors not unnaturally regarded with a somewhat jealous eye those who stepped into the places from which they for conscience' sake had been excluded, and the accounts which they have left us of the abuses existing in the Church which had turned them adrift must not be accepted without some allowance for the circumstances under which they were written.
It briefly explained that a mutiny had taken place; that Captain Barnard was set adrift; and that I might expect immediate relief as far as provisions were concerned, but must not venture upon making any disturbance. It concluded with these words: "I have scrawled this with blood your life depends upon lying close."
It's hard for you, dear, I know it's hard! You would rather cut yourself adrift from us, and never see us again; but it is in your power to return good for evil to lighten our trouble as no one else could do. Will you come, Evie?" Evie looked into the quivering face, and her eyes shone then the kind arms opened wide and the brown head nestled down on the broad, motherly shoulder.
This eminent man was born at Langres in 1713, the son of a worthy cutler. He was educated by the Jesuits, and on his refusal to enter either of the learned professions of law or medicine, was set adrift by his father, who hoped that a little hardship would bring him to reason, and found himself in Paris with no resource but the precarious one of letters.
Here the chambermaid entered with the brandy and water, the newspaper, and cigar, the captain lighted the last, took a deep sup from the beverage, and said, gaily: "Well, now, let us join fortunes; we are both, as you say, 'adrift. Best way to staund the breeze is to unite the caubles." Philip shook his head, and, displeased with his companion, sought his pillow.
It wasn't near enough, anyhow; not near. The evasion seemed to Anderson purposeless; the mere shifting and doubling that comes of long years of dishonest living. And again the question stabbed his consciousness were his children justified in casting him so inexorably adrift? "Well, I'd better run down and have a look," he said at last. "If it's a good thing I dare say I can find you the dollars."
Then only childless and desolate and broken would she be turned adrift in the desert, to return no more for ever. The ghastly glamour of the night attracted and repelled her like the swing of a mighty pendulum. She was trying to pray that much had Bernard taught her but her prayer only ran blind and futile through her brain.
He should have made many mistakes and been saved often by the skin of his teeth, for the skin of one's teeth is the most teaching thing about one. He should have been, or at any rate believed himself, a great fool and a great criminal. He should have cut himself adrift from society, and yet not be without society. He should have given up all, even Christ himself, for Christ's sake.
"Chain break?" Donaster queried. "Something's gone, that's certain. We're not draggin' the anchor, anyway. We couldn't git this fer with the anchor towin' below. It would have caught in something or other an' brought us up if it had been there. But it ain't there. The chain must have snapped an' let the boat go adrift. It broke once before an' dad fixed it with a piece of wire.
It was a great mistake, for if we could capture the Esmeralda, with her picked and well-appointed crew, there would have been little or no difficulty in cutting the other ships adrift in succession. It would only have been the rout of Valdivia over again, chasing the enemy, without loss, from ship after ship, instead of from fort to fort.
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