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And as he spoke an angry growl from the westward heavens seemed to answer his wild words, and rolled and loudened nearer and nearer, till right over their heads it crashed against some cloud-cliff far above, and all was still. Each man looked in the other's face: but Amyas was unmoved. "The storm is coming," said he, "and the wind in it. It will be Eastward-ho now, for once, my merry men all!"
"Perhaps I did speak a little hastily to her, considering she saved my life; but what a brimstone it is! Mary Ambree in a dark skin! Now then, lads! Get the Santa Fe gold up out of the canoes, and then we will put her head to the north-east, and away for Old England. Mr. Brimblecombe! don't say that Eastward-ho don't bring luck this time."
The commandant shrugged his shoulders; the ship was put again before the wind, and as the shores of the Main faded lower and dimmer behind her, a mighty cheer broke from all on board; and for once the cry from every mouth was Eastward-ho! Scrap by scrap, as weakness and confusion of intellect permitted her, Lucy Passmore told her story.
Who was to eat any amount of dirt, if he could but save his influence thereby?" "I have altered my plans. I shan't stay here long: I shall just see this cholera over, and then vanish." "No?" "Yes. I cannot sit here quietly, listening to the war-news. It makes me mad to be up and doing. I must eastward-ho, and see if trumps will not turn up for me at last.
And none of them having any better answer to give, they all three went into the church, to see if one could be found there. And so Tom Thurnall, too, went Eastward-Ho, to take, like all the rest, what God might send. And how was poor Grace Harvey prospering the while?
"Eastward-ho never brought us luck," said Jack in an undertone to Cary. But by this time all eyes were turned to the north-west, where a black line along the horizon began to define the boundary of sea and air, till now all dim in mist. "There comes the breeze." "And there the storm, too."
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