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Updated: June 20, 2025
A blessing it is to be acquainted with my worthy friend, little Major British; and heaven, sure, it was that put the Major into my head, when I heard of this awkward scrape of poor Fog's. The Major is on half-pay, and occupies a modest apartment au quatrieme, in the very hotel which Pogson had patronized at my suggestion; indeed, I had chosen it from Major British's own peculiar recommendation.
But, thanks to the fog's clearing, the pilot recognised the Scottish coast, and, steering his four boats with great skill through all the dangers, on the 20th August he put in at Leith, where no preparation had been made for the queen's reception. Nevertheless, scarcely had she arrived there than the chief persons of the town met together and came to felicitate her.
"I've had tea out.... Oh, have you bathed baby? How good of you. I meant to be in earlier, but I was late.... The fog's awful; it's getting thicker and thicker." She sat down by the fire and loosened her coat, and took off her hat and rubbed the fog from her wet hair, and coughed.
"I'd give ten guineas," said he, "for one good hooray I would, by George! But bein' as it is, I'll postpone that till I haul off a few miles from this." "Why, what's the matter?" said Claude, rousing himself out of abstraction. "Matter?" repeated Zac. "Why, the wind's hauled round to the nor'west, and the fog's goin' to lift, an' the Parson's goin' to show her heels."
"I guess there's plenty would be mighty glad to git you. Anyhow, there's there's one that that I cal'late the fog's thick as ever, don't you?" But Miss Patience didn't mean to give up in this way. "What was it you was goin' to say?" she asked, by way of giving the bashful one another chance. "I was goin' to say, Pashy, that that I asked if you thought the fog was as thick as ever." "Oh, dear me!
There was something in the manner of the Princess, after receiving the salute, which impelled me, spite of myself, to ask who the lady was. "Madame de Genlis," exclaimed Her Highness, with a shudder of disgust, "that lamb's face with a wolf's heart, and a fog's cunning."
The second in command met him with the breathlessly whispered information that there was another ship in the cove. "She had been made out by several pairs of eyes only a couple of minutes before. She was lying at anchor very near the entrance a mere vague blot on the fog's brightness.
But then, if he gave up the search, if he left a single thing undone while there was still a chance, could he ever bear himself again? He sat in a chair at the wireless station, looking dully at the jumping blue spark. "Keep on with it, please," he said. "I'm going out in a boat again." "The fog's lifting, I think," said the operator. "Oh, thank the Lord!" groaned Ken.
The fog's denseness was confusing, too, and at one moment it seemed that the little narrow street would become inextricably choked and remain so until some mighty engine would blow the crowd into atoms. It had been a crowded night.
Her hair fell in heavy braids over the sheer silk of her night dress and her bosom was undefended against the bite of the fog's chill. At breakfast the next morning Eben Tollman, who was usually the least talkative at table, found that the burden of conversation fell chiefly upon himself.
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