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Updated: June 13, 2025
A fish leaps. An ocean steamer, low in the distance, can be descried creeping noiselessly on. The islands and shores mirror themselves half-distinctly in the water. A mile above, some boatful of pensive hearts are singing. So calm is the evening that the cadences come distinctly to us, and almost the words can be plainly caught.
"I wouldn't call that the worst thing that could happen to us," said Allen; and when the girls looked to him for an explanation he added: "It would be no end of fun to be dumped in the river with a boatful of pretty girls. Think of the good time we could have rescuing you." "Well, maybe you call that fun, but I should say it was pretty hard work," said Frank, ungallantly.
The last man left the ship when the heat on the poop became so great that it was scarcely possible to stand there. Still Montague and Gascoyne stood side by side near the taffrail, and the gig with her crew floated just below them. The last boatful of men pulled away from the burning vessel, and then Montague turned with a deep sigh and said "Now, Mr Gascoyne, get into the boat.
On the morning of the 16th the river had fallen ten feet, and starting at daybreak we reached the mouth of the Pata, and camped on a KERANGAN or pebble-bed beautifully situated among the forest-clad slopes a little way up the Pata. In the course of the day a boatful of Kayans from the Apoh had joined us.
Sure enough, between breakfast and noon we caught sight of her topmasts: but to reach her we must pass in full view and almost within point-blank range of a coast battery. We were scarcely abreast of it when a round-shot plumped into the sea ahead of us and brought us to, and almost at once a boatful of soldiers put off to board us.
As to the other side of the picture the companionship for life of a Malay girl, that legacy of a boatful of pirates there was only within him a confused consciousness of shame that he a white man Still, a convent education of four years! and then she may mercifully die. He was always lucky, and money is powerful! Go through it. Why not?
"Could I ever have consented to go to sea with a boatful of men, and not a woman on board? You have disgraced me, Malcolm." Between anger and annoyance she was on the point of crying. "It's not so bad as that, my lady. Here, Rose!" At his word, Rose appeared. "I've brought one of Lady Bellair's maids for your service, my lady," Malcolm went on. "She will do the best she can to wait on you."
"Sure I never preached in my life, and never will. But I'll hold ye to your word, Jeroboam; and, with God's blessing, we'll be off betimes to-morrow morning. Here come the boys: and, Holy Mother, look at the boatful of clawing craythurs they have with them!" "Lobsters, Brother Bart!" shouted Freddy, triumphantly. "Lobsters, Captain Jeb! Fine big fellows. I'm hungry as three bears."
If he called in the police promptly, arrested everyone, told all, and set against them the whole energy of England, he would probably escape; certainly not otherwise. They were a balconyful of gentlemen overlooking a bright and busy square; but he felt no more safe with them than if they had been a boatful of armed pirates overlooking an empty sea.
The little boatful anxiously watched the great ship and her convoys. Would she pause? Furiously Carl waved his white flag, Every eye was fastened on the distant shape. A cry went up from the men in the little boat. "They see us they see us!" They renewed their rowing with all their remaining strength, as though the great ship laying to in the distance might suddenly start away.
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