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The writer does not purpose to give an account of these actions, except so far as Rodney himself is concerned. W. Laird Clowes, vol. iii. pp. 520-535. Journals of Sir T. Byam Martin, Navy Records Society, vol. iii. p. 137. The Blockade of Brest, Navy Records Society. Introduction, p. xvi. Author's italics.
You will starve to death with considerable rapidity." "My dear Mr. Yorke," said Byam Ryll, approvingly, "you have won my heart, though I can't afford to let you win my sovereigns; I like you, but I must kill you off, I see." "Unless " said Yorke.
It was enough that it was, and she had leaned out of her window many a night and wondered why Byam Warner had never sung its music in his verse. Byam Warner! How how was she to think of him? Her overthrown ideals no longer even interested her, belonging as they did to some far off time when she had not come herself to dream upon these ravishing shores.
Sir Byam Martin has recorded, "After the battle of the 1st of June, Lord Howe was quite exhausted, as well indeed he might, considering that they had been manoeuvring and fighting for three days. Under circumstances approaching similarity, so far as North Atlantic fogs and weather resemble West India climate, Howe was sixty-eight, Rodney sixty-three, at the moment of testing.
He had evinced unmistakable signs of discontent and boredom before his intellectual henchman had thus struck in on his behalf; and he was really gratified for the rescue. Chandos was muttering some drunken words of insolence and anger; but Carew bore him down. "Pooh, pooh! Old Byam was right!" cried he, with boisterous mirth.
That's old Byam yonder, with the paunch and his hands behind him; he has nowhere else to put them, poor fellow." And here Parson Whymper launched into biography as aforesaid. The clock on the chimney-piece, on which the two were leaning, broke in upon the divine's scarcely less dulcet accents with its silver quarter.
But she could make little of the ferment in her mind, except that her mental companion, that arbitrary creation she had called Byam Warner, was gone forever. Even did she return to her northern home and dwell alone, his image would never return. She could not even now recall the lineaments of that immortal lover. The life of the imagination was past.
I had like to have died of embarrassment. I am not accustomed to have half a room gazing at me." "You will," he said gallantly. "But it is kind of you to make it easier. This is it. I have been am very unhappy about a friend of mine here. Of course you know the work of one, who, many believe, is our greatest poet Byam Warner?" Anne drew her breath in and her eyelashes together.
Byam," drawled the young man, somewhat insolently, but without being aware that he was addressing a stranger by his Christian name, "Carew says you know every thing. What is it that a gentleman is now obliged to go through before he can get any of these snug things one used to get for the asking? What is the confounded thing one has to pass?"
Favourable Appearances of an open Westerly Passage. Land to the Northward, a Series of Islands. General Appearance of them. Meet with some Obstruction from low Islands surrounded with Ice. Remains of Esquimaux Huts, and natural Productions of Byam Martin Island. Tedious Navigation from Fogs and Ice. Difficulty of Steering a Proper Course. Arrival and Landing on Melville Island.
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