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As they drew nearer the moonlit walls he looked in vain for sign of a landing-stage, and wondered, the lighted bund that he had seen from over the water being invisible to him round an angle of the building.
In two special carriages, which awaited Him at the landing-stage He and His family drove to the house of Shamsí Big, the official who had been appointed by the government to entertain its guests, and who lived in the vicinity of the Khirqiy-i-Sharíf mosque. Later they were transferred to the more commodious house of Vísí Páshá, in the neighborhood of the mosque of Sulṭán Muḥammad.
She passed close to me, and gave me a sidelong glance and a furtive smile, one of those smiles that drive you wild. Then she jumped on the landing-stage. I sprang forward to follow her, but my neighbor laid hold of my arm.
Behind them was the low flat shore with a few scattered white houses and factories behind a rough landing-stage. There were palms of different kinds in a straggling line, and on either side of the opening out of a muddy river, a bordering of dingy green mangroves tree cripples, Mark Vandean called them, because they all looked as if standing up on crutches.
Paul standing in it, with his usual pallid impassiveness. "I thought it better to announce at once," he said, with the same stiff respectfulness as of an old family lawyer, "a boat rowed by six men has come to the landing-stage, and there's a gentleman sitting in the stern." "A boat!" repeated the prince; "a gentleman?" and he rose to his feet.
Now, the next thing is this: I want two berths at once by this very steamer one for myself name of Cumberledge; one for a lady name of Wade; and look sharp about it." The sandy-haired man did look sharp; and within three minutes we were driving off with our tickets to Prince's Dock landing-stage.
"Bien, m'sieu," came the answer, and presently the motor-boat was dexterously edging her way through the throng till she emerged into a clear space and purred briskly towards the shore. Once more the Englishman's hand closed firmly round Ann's as he helped her out on to the little landing-stage. "Good-bye," she said, a trifle nervously. "And thank you so much for coming to my rescue."
Yes, they are coming here right enough! Suppose you help me to pull in the boat for them." The two men sauntered down to the shelving beach. The boat was close to them now, and Cecil was standing up in the bows. "We want to land for a few minutes," he called out. "Throw a rope, then," Andrew answered briefly. "You had better come in this side of the landing-stage."
There lay the wherry, without sight or sound of any living person on board; no one was moving in the little straggling street; not a dog barked. I went straight to the old inn, which stood about a hundred yards from the landing-stage, opposite the wherry's anchorage, and knocked loudly at the door.
She did not remember much about it herself, but this would be a fine way of getting a first look at so large a part of the great stream. It was slack water now, and the wharf seemed high, and the landing-stage altogether too steep and slippery. When Betty reached the packet's deck, old Mr.
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