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Updated: May 26, 2025
'Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu! What times! What memories! the old Frenchman would cry at last, fairly re-transported to the world of his youth, and, springing up, he would run to the little cupboard by his bed head, where he kept a score or so of little paper volumes volumes which the tradesman David soon discovered, from a curious study of French catalogues, to have a fast-rising money value and out would come Alfred de Musset's 'Nuit de Mai, or an outrageous verse from Baudelaire, or an harmonious nothing from Gautier.
Paul shouted out to the Dolphin, making signs to show what he expected. We saw her immediately afterwards shortening sail. Scarcely had we set the storm jib than the wind struck it, and away we flew over the now fast-rising seas. In a few seconds the wind was howling and shrieking, and the whole ocean was covered with foam. A short distance off, on the starboard quarter, was the Dolphin.
"It was a terrible thing to see the drowning of London, the sweeping of the awful bore that came up the Thames from the sea, the shipping wrecked by the tearing waves, the swirl of the fast-rising water round the immense basin in which the city lay, the downfall of the great buildings Westminster Abbey was one of the first that succumbed the overturned boats, and even great vessels floating on their sides, or bottom up, the awful spectacle of the bodies of the drowned tossing in the waves all these sights were before our horrified eyes while the vast eddy swept us round and round until the water rose so high that we were driven off toward the southwest.
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