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Updated: May 20, 2025
It bore on its crest its gay flotillas of pleasure and its drift of derelicts. To me it pointed all the miserable morals of contrast. "Where to?" inquired Bobby. "Do you show yourself in triumph at Rector's grill, or go home to dream of applauding thousands?" The lady shrugged her shapely shoulders. "Me for the hay!" she announced with prompt decisiveness.
Well, for something like fifteen years those guys of Sachigo have been doing and working; and now, to-day, they've jumped into the market with both feet. I haven't the full measure of things yet. But the play's a big thing. They're out for the game we've been playing. Say, they're combining every old mill we've left over. All the derelicts and moth-bounds.
Men walked in restless circles, looking up at the stars, muttering to themselves, or scanning the sea which had known their crimes and follies. Joe Hawkridge scooped out a bed for himself in the sand and dropped off to sleep by spells, with dreams of ease and quiet ashore and learning to be a gentleman. It was daylight when shouts startled him. The other derelicts were in a frenzy of agitation.
The huddled figure at the foot of Cleopatra's steps; the fantastic airiness of Smyth with his shredded umbrella; the smoky atmosphere of Archibald's, with its strange gathering of derelicts; the two chance acquaintances spending the night in the adjoining room what vivid, disjointed cameos they were! If there was such a thing as Fate, what meaning could there be in their having met?
There sprang to Hodder's mind a sentence in a book he had recently read: "Our slums became filled with sick who need never have been sick; with derelicts who need never have been abandoned." Suddenly, out of the suffocating stillness of the afternoon a woman's voice was heard singing a concert-hall air, accompanied by a piano played with vigour and abandon.
She was performing certain routine tasks charting meteorites, watching for derelicts and other obstructions to navigation, checking in constantly with all scheduled space-ships in case of need, and so on but primarily she was a warship.
And this sort of floating island which lay in a general way between the Bermudas and the Canaries covered an area of ocean, he said, half as big as the area of the United States; and to clear it ships had to make a wide detour for even in its thin outward edges a vessel's way was a good deal retarded and a steamer's wheel would foul sometimes, and there was danger always of collision with derelicts drifting in from the open sea to become a part of the central mass.
White mobs ransacked the area, indiscriminately and mercilessly beating women and children, looting stores and burning houses. It was estimated that half of the two thousand inhabitants of the area left the city. Many of them emigrated to Canada, and the local paper, which had helped to inflame the mob, lamented that the respectable black citizens had left and only derelicts remained.
The thing about them, the warning, the proof that they exhibited of all Rosalie's ideas about the inferiority of women, was that they were, in her phrase, derelicts not wanted; abandoned; homeless; or they would not be here.
I have only portrayed the heads of tribes as yet for your delectation. We shall number many others male and female of the usual self-expatriated British rank and file. Derelicts mostly." Lightly and coldly, Henrietta laughed. "Like, for example, the General and myself.
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