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'Miss Ossulton, observed her aunt, 'it is not proper for you to offer an opinion. The yacht wore round, and, sailing so fast, the smuggler had little chance of escaping her; but to chase is one thing to capture another. 'Let us give her a gun, said Lord B., 'that will frighten her; and he dare not cross our hawse.
"Let go twenty fathoms!" The pilot sighed relief as the starboard anchor splashed into the water and the cable roared after it through the hawse pipe. "What nationality are you?" asked the commander, watching the Puncher swing and gaging distances, but sparing one eye now for his unwelcome but official guest. "Me, sah?" "Yes, you."
The propeller raced madly; then the engine stopped dead. "Out oars! Look alive, men!" was the ensign's command. The clumsy raft tugged at the end of her hawse. The yawl went over the top of the wave and began to coast dizzily down the descent. The rope which held it to its tow cut through the swell. It tautened it snapped!
I hope to get spliced myself one of these fine days, and I sincerely trust it will be a long splice. But we must keep a good look-out that in veering the cable does not part in the hawse, for if it unfortunately does, ah, me! the separation, most likely will be a permanent one.
"He had a long trail to foller, an' he tuk the hawse that'd git 'im there and back the quickest. Now what I'd admire to know is, who was the rider, an' where was he goin' to? D' you happen to miss anybody las' night, Bud?" "Me? Thunder! Bill, you know damn well I wouldn't miss my own beddin' roll if it was drug out from under me!" "Same here," mourned Bill.
His failures were of several sorts, I know not which the truest: that he come with so strong a gale of wind, that his grapplings would not hold; that he did come by their lee; whereas if he had come athwart their hawse, they would have held; that they did not stop a tide, and come up with a windward tide, and then they would not have come so fast.
An old and trustworthy seaman, who acted as a sort of boatswain, had the charge on the forecastle, and was to tend the sheets and tack. His name was Rove. "See all clear," called out Spike. "D'ye hear there, for'ard! I shall make a half-board in the Gate, if the wind favour us, and the tide prove strong enough to hawse us to wind'ard sufficiently to clear the Pot so mind your "
By six o'clock that night we were abreast of the buoy which marks Longnose Ledge, when the pilot shifted his helm for the Elbow, and we began to feel in earnest the influence of the short, choppy sea, into which the City of Cawnpore was soon plunging her sharp stem to the height of the hawse pipes, to the rapidly-increasing discomfort of many of the passengers.
After this, of course, every officer went, with the exception of the master, who said that he'd as soon have two round turns in his hawse as go to see people kick their legs about like fools, and that he'd take care of the ship. The governor's ball was very splendid; but the ladies were rather sallow, from the effects of the climate.
When Jim Bolivar returned Pepper was trying to reason out the wherefor of being hitched behind such a handsome vehicle as Peggy's surrey, and Jess was protesting: "But but butter," stammered Jess, "Miss Peggy, yo' am' never in de roun' worl' gwine ter drive from de town an' clar out ter Severndale wid dat disrep'u'ble ol' hawse towin' 'long behime WE ALL?"
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