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Updated: September 29, 2025
Night fell, yet Ben-Hur could discern no change. About that time the smell of incense floated down the gangways from the deck. "The tribune is at the altar," he thought. "Can it be we are going into battle?" He became observant. Now he had been in many battles without having seen one.
The bodies were laid in orderly rows amidships, forward of the mainmast, and all was ready when the word was passed. The crew assembled in the gangways facing aft, the boatswain, gunner, carpenter, sailmaker, and other warrant officers at their head.
He was still thinking of the kitchen-maid and the unfinished ham, or else of the ham and the unfinished kitchen maid, I am not sure which. "What about 'em?" Brett echoed. "Do they take up their gangways at night?" "Unless some one's expected," said Gryce. "Do they have a watchman?" "One forward and one aft on big yachts." "Making two," said Brett.
With an instinct not unlike that which drives the hiding wharf-rat into the deepest corner at hand, he made his way down through the body of the ship. He shambled and skulked his way down, a hatless and ragged and uncouth figure, wandering on along gloomy gangways and corridors until he found himself on the threshold of the engine-room itself.
And of the others, who had avoided the first fury of the Indians, some endeavoured to escape along the gangways into the forecastle, but the Indians placed there on purpose stabbed the greatest part of them as they attempted to pass by, or forced them off the gangways into the waist.
Ah! but the Bill must pass first.... She clenched her hands on the rail, and stared steadily before her on the ranks of heads, the open gangways, the great mace on the table, and heard, above the murmur of the crowd outside and the dying whispers within, her own heart beat. She could not see Him, she knew.
I mean the pleading, yearning expression of loneliness that there was in your eyes when they were the eyes of a little, lame boy who could not get up the gangways without me. 'Ah, the egotism of love! I exclaimed. 'You mean, Winnie, that expression which my unlucky eyes had lost when we met upon the sands after our childhood was passed.
Beds and blankets were not supplied that evening: the boats were hoisted up, sentries on the gangways supplied with ball-cartridges to prevent desertion, and permission granted to the impressed men to "prick for the softest plank," which they could find for their night's repose.
"You're prejudiced against Ventner," laughed Canfield. "I admit it!" replied Will. "He looks to me like snake in the grass. I don't think anything he could do would look good to me." "Now," Canfield said, "perhaps we'd better be mapping out a plan of campaign. There are three gangways leading in three different directions.
These, with their arms evidently bound behind their backs, and placed on one of the gangways, were only visible at intervals, as the band of savages that surrounded them, brandishing their tomahawks around their heads, occasionally left an opening in their circle.
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