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Mary's little "home sweet home" had been all at once deprived of sweetness, and she sat within it like a mournful castaway, clinging to the wreck of that which had so long been her peace and safety. Tired out by her long night journey and lack of sleep, she looked very white and weary and ill and Angus Reay, sitting opposite to her, looked scarcely less worn and weary than herself.
Paul says that he himself needed to go forward that he wanted fresh strength that he had to forget what was past, and consider all he had done and felt as nothing, and press forward to the prize of his high calling; that he needed to be daily conquering himself more and more, keeping down his bad feelings, hunting out one bad habit after another, lest, by any means, when he had preached to others, he himself should become a castaway.
"You got-um bad mans!" asserted the chief again. "One mans," admitted Rob. "Maybe so good mans; we don't know." "Where you comes?" asked the chief, presently, looking about him. "This my house here. White mans come here now?" Rob did not think it best to admit that they were castaway and lost on these distant shores, so he determined to put on a bold front.
"He has not been taken with arms in his hands, and is, in fact, a castaway mariner." The captain's face relaxed into a smile. "I see you are a sort of sea lawyer. Well, we shall see about it. What is there in these storehouses?" "A quantity of things, sir. They took away a great many with them, but there must be ten times as much left.
The yellow masts and the bellying sails, the gray drawn face and the cracked lips of the castaway, her father's gaunt earnest features as he knelt to support the dying minister, De Catinat in his blue coat, already faded and weather-stained. Captain Savage with his wooden face turned towards the clouds, and Amos Green with his hands in his pockets and a quiet twinkle in his blue eyes!
Soames listened with an odd expression on his face. "That," he said, "started out as a gadget for a castaway to stop arrows that savages were sniping at him with. I'm very pleased." There was no more for him to say. The pleasure he felt, of course, would be the only reward he was likely to get. At the moment he was bent upon an enterprise his fellow-Americans would have regarded with horror.
There she stood, in her long black cloak and gown, the last dim light of evening falling tenderly on her pale, resolute young face. There she stood not three months since the spoiled darling of her parents; the priceless treasure of the household, never left unprotected, never trusted alone there she stood in the lovely dawn of her womanhood, a castaway in a strange city, wrecked on the world!
"Come along, men!" said he to the deck-hands. I sprang ahead of them flung the door shut put my back against it: crying out against him all the while. My sister caught my wrist I pushed her away. Tom Tot laid his hand on my shoulder I threw it off with an oath. My heart was in a flame of rage and resentment. That this castaway should succour our enemy!
Now, Lord, give me Christ upon any terms, whatsoever He cost; for I am a dead man, a damned man, a castaway, if I have not Christ. What say you, O you wounded sinners? Is not this true as I have said?
Neither did the castaway English sailor nor his young comrade think it necessary. Even had a fire been possible, they were too hungry to have stayed for the process of cooking; and both, without more ado, dined upon raw shark-meat.
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