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I mean we have five or six hundred pounds in legacies. 'Indeed! Soundly invested, I hope? 'First-class. English Railway Debentures. 'I see. Trustee stock. Simeon Samuels stroked his beard. 'And so your whole congregation works on the Sabbath. A pretty confession! 'What do you mean? 'Runs railway trains, lights engine-fires, keeps porters and signal-men toiling, and pockets the profits!
Shortly after, the water, sweeping in from above, put out the engine-fires, and, as she settled down continually in the trough of the sea, and lay trembling there as though she would never rise again, even in my ignorance I knew that she had "no way on her" and was at the mercy of the waters. I now understood the meaning of "blowing great guns."
By Six Bells, however, the storm had increased to such an extent, that, after trying what treble-reefing would do, we had to take in our topsails altogether, laying-to under storm staysails and easy steam, the engine-fires had been lit and the screw lowered on the first break of the storm, so as to keep the ship-head to wind and provide for any eventuality that might come.
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