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Updated: May 8, 2025
"When you've done issuing orders," said the captain, in an indifferent voice, "perhaps you'll explain what you are doing aboard my crag." Captain Nugent gazed at the stern of the fast-receding smack; Sunwich was getting dim in the distance and there was no other sail near. He began to realize that he was in for a long voyage.
Will that get me a meal?" and, whipping out my knife, cut off another of my fast-receding coat buttons. The man took it with great interest, as I hoped he would, the yellow metal being apparently a very scarce commodity in his part of the planet. "Gold?" he asked. "Well ahem! I forgot to ask the man who sewed them on for me what they were exactly, but it looks like gold, doesn't it?"
Still hurrying me forward, Ama led the way through the grove and along its edge, until we eventually reached a narrow bush path, through which it was necessary to wend our way circumspectly, for it was now as black as a wolf's mouth, save when an occasional flicker of lightning from the now fast-receding storm momentarily lit up our surroundings.
"But so cruel, so treacherous!" replied I, looking at the fast-receding boat. "I grant, most cruel, and most treacherous; but we must leave them to the judgment of God. What can they expect from Him in the way of mercy when they have shown none? I tell you candidly, that I think we are better in our present forlorn state upon this rock, than if in that boat.
She foresaw that nothing but unhappiness for herself could result from meeting him again, and yet she could not restrain a throb of the heart when his stalwart form and handsome features rose before her. The two girls stood in silence, their eyes fixed on the fast-receding shore. Old Bastienne, beside them, was dissolved in tears.
Thus we sat through that dark night, waiting for the coming hour so important to our fate. Over the wide-spread sea streamed the first light of morning. As it spread from one end of heaven to the other our hearts beat, our eyes ached to penetrate still quicker the fast-receding gloom.
It was indeed a lovely night; they stepped on board, the anchor was loosed, the sail set, and with the wind behind, they stood rapidly out to sea. They were quite silent, each immersed in his own thoughts. At last they heard the sound of horsemen galloping on the fast-receding shore, and looking back, they saw twelve riders reach the beach, and pause, looking wistfully out to sea.
Seeing that he was now indeed afloat, and that the ship was some distance from land, the man became more nervous than ever. He paced up and down the deck, looking anxiously at the fast-receding shore. Suddenly he ran toward the bow of the ship and leaned far over the rail. "Hey there!" yelled Bob, thinking the man was going to Jump overboard and swim ashore. "What are you doing?"
He accepted both, mechanically, still gazing with earnest looks at the fast-receding canoe. Presently he raised the glass to his lips, and his nose became aware of the long-forgotten odour! The current of his thoughts was violently changed. He looked intently at the glass and then at the pipe. "Drink," said the sympathetic steward, "and take a whiff. It'll do you good."
Iris answered not. Her blue eyes were fixed on the fast-receding cliffs. "Sweetheart," said her husband, "why are you so silent?" She turned to him. The light of the setting sun! illumined her face with its golden radiance. "Because I am so happy," she said. "Oh, Robert, dear, so happy and thankful." The latest news of Col. and Mrs.
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