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"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.
Every way you can look at it, shippin' 's a loss to us." At this moment the shrill whistle of a locomotive sounded back of the town, but the captains took no notice of it. Two idle boys suddenly came scrambling up the broken landing-steps from the water, one of them clutching a distressed puppy.
The green trees and the exquisite day seemed to mock him. Alone, alone with no prospect of seeing his Queen until the morrow, when at eleven he was to meet her at the landing-steps at the foot of the funiculaire. But that was to-morrow, and how could he get through to-day?
In the basin of the harbour the fog lay thicker than in the roads, and they had scarcely made sure that this was indeed the quay-light before their boat grated against the landing-steps of the quay itself. The Commandant, after he had shipped his oars and checked the way on her, pressing both hands against the dripping wall, put up one of them and passed the back of it slowly across his forehead.
I wished Old Grumble a good night and left him. As I returned home, I thought of what he had said about night work, and, instead of making my way to Fisher's Alley, I returned to the landing-steps, resolving to watch for a time and see what occurred. I thought of what had passed. I was not satisfied with myself. I thought of what Anderson would say, and I felt that I had done wrong.
Leopold was on the landing-steps in time to assist the ladies when the first boat came alongside the platform, and the whole party were soon on the wharf. "Who are all these people, Leopold?" asked Squire Moses Wormbury, as the young man was ascending the steps. "Mr. Franklin Hamilton's party from New York," replied the young man hastily.
Plunging bows under as she came along, the steamer towed the lifeboat through a haze of spray; but amid this veil of foam, the flags of the two vessels denoting that shipwrecked men were in the boat streamed like well-understood words from the mastheads. The people crowded thickly about the landing-steps when the lifeboat entered the harbour. Whispers flew from mouth to mouth.
My father helped me down with my luggage, which was not very heavy; and Anderson and old Ben accompanied us to the landing-steps; and having bid them all farewell, besides many others of my friends who were there, I stepped into the boat sent for me; and quitted Greenwich for my new avocation on the 6th of October, 1799, being then, as Anderson had calculated, precisely thirteen years and seven months old.
At that moment we heard the stroke of oars across the quiet water and saw the Count's boat touch the landing-steps. Four strong oarsmen from Monte Isola were to row him down to Iseo, to take horse for Milan, and his servant, knapsack on shoulder, knocked warningly at the terrace window. "No time to lose, excellency!" he cried. Roberto turned and gripped my hand.
And there were half a dozen canoe-men with a lantern at the landing-steps, and old John the steward in his white apron rubbing his hands, and the Colonel and the Doctor blowing the conch and the fish-horn in merry welcome. It was all very jolly, and Chichester knew at once that he was at home. Dinner at nine o'clock, before the big open hearth, with a friendly fire.
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