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Updated: May 18, 2025
As I grew older, I used to hasten down to the landing-steps on the beach, where the new inn called the Trafalgar now stands, and watch the tide as it receded, and pick up anything I could find, such as bits of wood and oakum; and I would wonder at the ships which lay in the stream, and the vessels sailing up and down.
With the aid of a convert, he unbarred the ponderous gate, and ventured out on the highest slab of the landing-steps. Across the river, to be sure, there lay between a local junk and a stray papico from the north the high-nosed Hakka boat, her deck roofed with tawny basket-work, and at her masthead a wooden rice-measure dangling below a green rag.
"The tailor's indignation at hearing this was even greater than his astonishment, and pointing to the landing-steps, he cried: "It is really too bad; see, there is the sixth boat full of these foreigners!" "Yes, it is hard indeed!" sighed the priest, "one might fancy a whole army arriving.
By-and-by they reached the landing-steps. He took her hand as before, and found it as cold as the water about them. It was not relinquished till he reached her door. His assurance had not removed the constraint of her manner: he saw that she blamed him mutely and with her eyes, like a captured sparrow. Left alone, he went and seated himself in a chair on the Esplanade.
One morning, as I was standing on the landing-steps, the breath coming out of my mouth like the steam of a tea-kettle, rubbing my nose, which was red from the sharpness of the frost, and looking at the sun, which was just mounting above a bank of clouds, a waterman called to me, and asked me whether I would go down the river with him, as he was engaged to take a mate down to join his ship, which was several miles below Greenwich; and, if so, he would give me sixpence and a breakfast.
Bent-Anat went forward without speaking, for she did not wish to make herself known again for the sake of the people, and for Nefert's; but Paaker put himself in her way. "Did I not tell you that you common people must wait till we are gone. Push these people's boat out into the stream, you men." Bent-Anat felt her blood chill, for a loud squabble at once began on the landing-steps.
The boat came opposite him, passed on, and touched the landing-steps at the further end. One of its occupants was a man, as Stephen had known by the easy stroke of the oars.
Bent-Anat went forward without speaking, for she did not wish to make herself known again for the sake of the people, and for Nefert's; but Paaker put himself in her way. "Did I not tell you that you common people must wait till we are gone. Push these people's boat out into the stream, you men." Bent-Anat felt her blood chill, for a loud squabble at once began on the landing-steps.
I shall no doubt see you again to-morrow or next day, when we can have a further chat." Henderson touched his hat and turned away, and the master-attendant and I made our way along the wharf to the landing-steps.
After luncheon, by which time all the passengers but ourselves had gone ashore, we engaged a sampan, bade Kusumoto and the ship's officers farewell, and landed in the English "hatoba," which is a sort of floating basin, the shore end of which consists of landing-steps alongside which a whole fleet of boats can be accommodated at once.
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