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This was rank heresy, and moreover seemed to imply something. Captain Nugent wondered dismally whether life ashore would infect him with the same opinions. "What about that man of mine who threw a belaying-pin at me?" The harbour-master quailed at the challenge. The obvious retort was offensive.
"But what mattresses?" replied the harbour-master. "I was sent to get mattresses," said the captain, "and here I wait till they come." This was a nuisance, nobody had said anything about the mattresses. "I shan't go till to-morrow anyhow," said the skipper. "I think we'd all better go back to Podgoritza and come again to-morrow," said the man in charge. "We don't move from here," said Jo, firmly.
Some young ladies of the colony, amongst whom were Miss Hindmarsh and Miss Lepson, the one the daughter of the first Governor of the province, the other of the Harbour-master, had worked a silken union to present to Mr.
We did not expect to see anything before morning of the harbour-master or of Stajitch who had gone with him; but just as we were settled and beginning to snore and the rats were running about, Stajitch poked his head through the window and said that the boat was going immediately.
"But it was high water then, and now it's the ebby tide," he told himself. He had met with nobody on the shore or on the pier, but as he passed the sheds in front of the berth for the steamers he was joined by the harbour-master, who was swinging home for the night, with his coat across his arm.
'God help them! said the harbour-master, 'for nothing in this world can save them when they are between Bude and Tintagel and the wind on shore! The coastguards exerted themselves, and, aided by brave hearts and willing hands, they brought the rocket apparatus up on the summit of the Flagstaff Rock.
With her telephone ring-ringing, the thrum of her screw filling the air, the big liner bore down on them, cutting sharp through the dark water so that big white shavings curled to either side. Hammond and the harbour-master kept in front of the rest.
There is always some difficulty in getting out of the harbour of Marseilles, and the natural obstacles are heightened by the want of a superintending power. There is no harbour-master, to regulate the movements of vessels, and to appoint their respective places; consequently, there is generally a great deal of confusion; while serious accidents are not unfrequent.
And the harbour-master, who was a bachelor, laughed more heartily, and added "You married men are like Adam, you've lost the rib of your liberty, but you've got a warm little woman to your side instead." "Ha! ha! ha! Goodnight!" Pete's laugh echoed through the empty market-place. The harbour-master had seen nothing.
He had talked snappishly and petulantly at table, contradicted aggressively, and on two occasions gave Captain North the lie; but we had carefully avoided noticing his manner, and acted as though he were still the high bred, polished gentleman who had sailed with us from Calcutta. The first to come aboard were the Customs people. They were almost immediately followed by the harbour-master.
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