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On the contrary, that curious structure, the crane, which the Catamarans had erected on the summit of the floating mass, was still standing just as they had left it; only that the flakes of shark's flesh were scorched to the hue and texture of a cinder, and the fire that had burnt them was no longer blazing beneath. The fate of the slaver's castaway crew did not long remain a mystery.
Many a cowering deer in those last few days that had made some one of these green fragments of the drowned land a haven of despair, the human castaway left unharmed. Of all sentient creatures in that deluge he was suffering most. He was gaunt and haggard with watching. The thought of pursuit bursting suddenly around him now fastened permanently upon his imagination. He feared to sleep.
The slave in his chains, the prisoner within his dark dungeon, the castaway on his desert isle, all have their hours of joy perhaps as vivid and lasting as those of the king upon his throne, or the conqueror in his car of triumph. On earth there is no happiness unmingled with alloy; and, perhaps, there is no sorrow that may not in time find solace.
But then the evil that would be done was so great! She did not for a moment doubt all that Lady Mary told her about the girl. The worst of it had indeed been admitted. She was a Roman Catholic, ill-born, ill-connected, damaged utterly by a parent so low that nothing lower could possibly be raked out of the world's gutters. And now the girl herself was a castaway.
However, be that as it may, I was once the owner of a pedigree thoroughbred called Dreadnought, which was presented to me when a colt. Dreadnought's dam Collingwood was by Muley Moloch out of Barbelle. Dreadnought was good for nothing as a racer, and had broken down in training. As a castaway he was offered to me, and I gladly accepted the present.
Kelcey I have to remember the hurt, and the grind, and the hardness of life and it's good for me. It helps me, as St. Paul said, to 'keep under my body and bring it into subjection." "That's monkish doctrine." "No, it's St. Paul's, I tell you. Remember the rest of it? 'lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway!" "You! A castaway!" The doctor laughed.
Could she not run away without returning to the red house at all? But whither was she to run, and with whom? The only one who would have helped her in this wild enterprise had been sent to prison by that ill-conditioned old man who had made her so miserable! At this moment, there was no longer any hope in her bosom that she should save herself from being a castaway; nay, there was hardly a wish.
I have been after an adventure all my life, a pure dispassionate adventure, such as befell early and heroic voyagers; and thus to be found by morning in a random woodside nook in Gevaudan not knowing north from south, as strange to my surroundings as the first man upon the earth, an inland castaway was to find a fraction of my day-dreams realised.
Then suddenly remembering that he might be reckoning without his host: "Unless, to be sure, you are willing to have him, perhaps you are," he said, with the wretched indifference of a castaway. "No, indeed I am not!" she said, her sobs just beginning to take a favourable turn towards cure.
I do not think Wright was the name of anyone on shipboard. I am sure he was not one of the boys," was Ralph's answer. This information pointed to two things clearly: That there were other boys, belonging to their ship, castaway on the island, and that at least one of the crew of John's vessel might be found.
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