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Edward Sadler, you were, on May 25th, chief mate of the good ship Victoria...." The fair man with the beard told his story, the old story of the ship with its cargo of coffee and dye-wood; its good passage past the Gran Caymanos; the becalming off the Cuban shore in latitude so and so, and the boarding of a black schooner, calling itself a Mexican privateer. I could see all that.
On the 19th, at daylight, passed within gunshot of one of the frigates, but she did not fire on us, perhaps, for fear of becalming her, as the wind was light; soon after passing us she tacked, and stood after us at this time six sail were in sight, under all sail after us.
The fact that the Germans, for a whole century, have devoted themselves more particularly to the study of history, only tends to prove that they are the stemming, retarding, and becalming force in the activity of modern society a circumstance which some, of course, will place to their credit.
So they trusted in God, and permitted Moussa Isa, slave-boy, to do all that it was humanly possible for him to do. Moussa did all that was expected of him, but not so Allah and Mohammed his Prophet. But Time is made for slaves, and the only slave upon the Argosy was Moussa Isa, and so the becalming was neither here nor there.
But I was not going to permit that if I could help it, and it soon became perfectly clear that we could, the schooner having the heels of the ship, although we were soon under the lee of the latter, with her sails partially becalming ours. At length, finding that we could outsail the Indiaman, I luffed close in under her lee and hailed, in the best Spanish that I could muster "Ho, the ship ahoy!
That fool is an ordained preacher, and your sockless legislature did away with marriage licenses." Lyman looked about and saw Miss Eva faint in her mother's arms; he saw terror in the faces about him, and his cheek felt the hot breath of Sawyer's rage. He stepped back, for the banker's hand was at his throat. "Pardon me," he said, with a quietness that struck the company with a becalming awe.
They were already forward on their voyage, when the wind fell on the sudden; and in a moment the waves were laid, and the face of the ocean grew so smooth, that the Santa Cruz stood still, and moved no more than if she had been at anchor. During this becalming, which lasted fourteen days together, their water failed them, and some died from the first want of it.
And so while John Barclay in the City is daily slipping millions of his railroad bonds into the market, slipping them in quietly yet steadily withal, mixing them into the daily commerce of the country, so gently that they are absorbed before any one knows they have left his long grasping fingers, while he is trading to his heart's content, let us forget him, and look at this young man, that September night, after he left Molly Brownwell, sitting at his desk in the office with the telephone at his elbow, with the smell of the ink from the presses in his nostrils, with the silence of the deserted office becalming his soul, and with his heart a clean, strong, manly heart full of the picture of a woman's face, and the vision without a hope.
Had my father leaned his head upon his hand, and reasoned an hour which way to have gone reason, with all her force, could not have directed him to any think like it: there is something, Sir, in fish-ponds but what it is, I leave to system-builders and fish-pond-diggers betwixt 'em to find out but there is something, under the first disorderly transport of the humours, so unaccountably becalming in an orderly and a sober walk towards one of them, that I have often wondered that neither Pythagoras, nor Plato, nor Solon, nor Lycurgus, nor Mahomet, nor any one of your noted lawgivers, ever gave order about them.
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