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The moment this was accomplished every sense deserted me, and I lay there motionless, totally unconscious. I shall never know how long I remained thus, the little dory in which I lay rocked aimlessly about by the waves, and constantly drifting in the grasp of unseen currents farther and farther out into the Bay.
Self-consciousness and restraint were forgotten in this struggle for the common preservation, and above the buzz of general intense discussion there rose always the voice of some speaker with an idea or suggestion. Code Schofield had come to the meeting with Pete Ellinwood and Jimmie Thomas, both dory mates at different times.
He's forkin' them wan by wan," howled Long Jack, as Uncle Salters got to work laboriously; the little man in the other dory counting a line of notches on the gunwale. "That was last week's catch," he said, looking up plaintively, his forefinger where he had left off.
They ran down to where Abishai's craft had vanished; found two or three trawl-tubs, a gin-bottle, and a stove-in dory, but nothing more. "Let 'em go," said Disko, though no one had hinted at picking them up. "I wouldn't hev a match that belonged to Abishai aboard. Guess she run clear under. Must ha' been spewin' her oakum fer a week, an' they never thought to pump her.
Pete jerked a thumb over his shoulder. "I'll tell you what I'll do, captain," said Uncle Dick. "I'm in a big hurry to report to my commanding officer on the Bennington, for he's no doubt been lying here two or three days waiting for us. You keep Pete here, and let me and the boys take his dory and pull in they'll take us through the tide-rips all right, if it gets bad.
Senator Hanway was somewhat astonished at Dorothy's forethoughtfulness; the more since the reception was a week and more away. "Miss Dory wants to have Miss Bess, from 'cross d' street, go 'long," vouchsafed the maid. "Oh, that's it!" said Senator Hanway, who mistook this for an explanation. Richard was on nettles to get at Dorothy's note.
Don't talk to me of motor-boats! A good old-fashioned skiff with a leg-o'-mutton sail in her is good enough fur me. How 'bout you, Willie?" No reply was forthcoming. "I say, Willie," repeated Jan in a louder tone, "that these new fangled motor-boats, with their noise an' their smell, ain't no match fur a good clean dory."
I couldn't that is, honestly but I bought a six hundred dollar grub stake, loaded it aboard a dory, and having instructed the trader regarding the disposition of my mortal, drunken remains, I fanned through that camp like a prairie fire shot in the sirloin with a hot wind.
Besides, Dory is in a profession that is quite aristocratic, and those lectures he delivered at Göttingen are really talked about everywhere on the other side." But Adelaide refused to be consoled. "No, I'm not a lady not what you'd call a lady, even as a Frenchwoman." "Oh, but I'm a good American!"
Leander had said nothing all this time. He had known the man, and had expected to spend the day with him and to get him to go on two miles farther to help bargain for a dory. He asked, in a disappointed way, what had carried him off so sudden. "Drink," said the woman, relentlessly. "He ain't been good for nothing sence his wife died: she was took with a fever along in the first of August.
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