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Updated: June 15, 2025
I tried to read her name, but the vessel jibed sharply as though the hands of the man at the wheel had suddenly dropped the helm and then with equal abruptness swung back to her course. The stern came in sight, and on it I read Brunhilda. I shifted my glasses to the man at wheel.
Well, I never did like that forem'st that was in the Colleen, and so, thinks I, here's a chance to test it and why not, with the race coming on? So I jibed her over off Minot's just and sure enough it cracked about ten feet below the mast-head." "You were satisfied then, Tom?" "Sure and I was. And better before the race than in the race. And next day that's to-day we spent putting in a new stick.
"I haven't any intention of keeping out," retorted Douglas. "You'd better," warned Judith. "If you think I'm going to turn down a chance for a real outfit, without hearing the argument, you're mistaken." "I told you I'd help you," insisted Douglas. "You! What could you buy!" jibed the girl.
It is Martin Howe that you have to thank for your harvest, whether you like it or not Martin Howe!" Breathlessly she paused. "You seem to have a terrible high opinion of Martin Howe," scoffed Ellen, with scathing sarcasm. "I have." "Likely you're in love with him," jibed the tormentor. "Yes, I love him." The simple confession came proudly from the girl's lips.
The last words, uttered aloud, seemed to spring from his lips as though uttered by the very power of invincible determination. A sneer, behind him, brought him round with a start. His gaze widened, at sight of Herzog standing there, cold and dangerous looking, with a venomous expression in those ill-mated eyes of his. "Take it, will you?" jibed the scientist. "You thief!"
"Ay, it was bitter the Taku howling down out of the north, the salt water freezing quick as it struck the deck, and the old sloop and I hammering into the teeth of it for a hundred miles to Dyea. Had a Douglass Islander for crew when I started, but midway up he was washed over from the bows. Jibed all over and crossed the course three times, but never a sign of him."
He winced under Wyllard's gaze, and spread out his hands with a deprecating gesture. "Now," he added, "what else was there I could do? She wrung her masthead off when you jibed her and there's not stick enough left to set any canvas that would shove her to windward. I might have hove her to, but the first time the breeze hauled easterly she'd have gone up on the beach or among the ice with us.
To Bangs's embarrassment, however, the boom suddenly swung inboard, swiped across the stern, causing him to duck hastily, and almost knocking the bonnet off the lady with the pug dog. Mr. Bangs had jibed the boat, greatly to his surprise. But no harm had been done, as the wind was light. Mr. Bangs laughed loudly. "Meant to tell you that was coming," he said. "She'll sail better this way.
Through all this the little boat buffeted bravely on till she reached the point of the Gran Boule. Then a strange thing happened. The water was lumpy; the evening was growing thick; a swirl of the tide and a shift of the wind caught the chaloupe and swung her suddenly around. The mainsail jibed, and before he knew how it happened Dan Scott was overboard. He could swim but clumsily.
Could he ever have believed that the time would come when it would send a thrill of joy through his heart to know that his wife would die? As they entered the Iroquois village the squaws and warriors had rushed towards them, and they passed through a double line of hideous faces which jeered and jibed and howled at them as they passed.
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