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And whither the Hercules is going, thither is the Idaho going, and the Dante gone, and gone the elongated length of the Invincible, and twenty destroyers, and the bow-works of the old Powerful, which stoops woefully there, screws in air, as the camel of the desert kneels and waits, while into her beam comes crashing the ram of the poopless Deutschland. Yet the Boodah has not fired a gun!
Hilda on the hill over Westring, which you found me examining that morning after our escape from the prison? Well, now, I once saw at Thring, and once in the Boodah, an old goat-hair trunk of yours: what is become of it?" "I have it " Hogarth was shivering, his eyes wide, and in his memory a strange singsong crooning of t'hillim, heard ages before in some other world over a cradle.
But as the Boodah's boats, meanwhile, had been racing toward her, and as her own port boats were quickly out, all were got off; in fact, she floated so long, that her ship's papers with L270,000 in specie, and a few hundred-weight of mailbags were saved, and even after the boats reached the Boodah she still stretched there motionless, until, with a sudden flurry, she determined to plunge.
Yonder, to the north-west, appeared a ghost, a thing, a derelict brig, driving downhill on the billows, like a blind man gadding aimless with a crazy down-look, the rags of her one sail drumming on the gusts; and near, nearer, within a stone's-throw of the Boodah, she swaggered wearily, drab Arab, doomed despondent Ahasuerus of the deep, nomad on the nomad sea; and on into the gloom of the south- west she roamed, to be again and again re-created by the rolling light-drum, while Hogarth with a groan said: "If I were only dead!
But by the time this news reached Europe the eyes of Europe were no longer given up to the Boodah: for another Boodah, called the Truth, was a-tow through the North Channel from Belfast; and she had not reached the Mull of Cantire, when a third was launched at San Francisco, so that the interest of the islands became complicated. What would they do? What could they?
The ladies stoop through curtseys; the men do reverence; Hogarth bows. There like a Begum of Bhopal stood Rebekah, floridly reflected in the glassy floor, sallow under the eyes, smiling at him, he at her; and very quickly now, she once in his sight, he recovered comparative calm, and the strength of his heart. "Your first visit to the Boodah, I think?" looking at her.
As she passed through the Straits, seventy-five English blue-jackets put out from Trafalgar, and joined her. With such reports passed the weeks. Occasionally five or six coal- ships would be seen about the Boodah; her number of tug-ships might be as low as two; sometimes nine, ten.
Miss Frankl and I have met in the world. Come, ladies come, sirs say yes!" Rebekah, standing averted, flashed a look at him, reading his heart, and Jews and Jewesses laid heads together, whispering a little, until the Rabbi said, bowing: "We bend to your Lordship's Majesty's most gracious will". "Agreed, then, sir. We might now see the Boodah, and if you will luncheon with me Mr.
And during nine months the elite and joyous yachts arrived, not at the Boodah only, but at others of the twelve which, one by one, were launched and towed to position; and a round of events transacted themselves in the fortresses: Marie Antoinette balls, classic concerts, theatrical functions by troupe or amateur, costume-balls, children's-balls, banquets of the gods, grave receptions.
For in the matter of mines the Boodah had all the advantages of a shore, and as to dirigible torpedoes more than all.
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