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Updated: June 22, 2025
In order to stalemate her mighty foe, she pushed on her colonial conquests so as to control the resources of the tropics, and thus prevent that deadly tilting of the balance landwards which Napoleon strove to effect. And fate decreed that the conquests of English seamen and settlers were to be more enduring than those of Napoleon's legions.
With a heavy gale dead on shore, if the lifeboat had succeeded in launching, she would not have fetched the wreck, had she lain any distance either side, but would have been helplessly beaten back again. The Kingsdown men were keenly watching the approaching catastrophe as the Glendura came landwards.
He had nothing to say but what seemed natural and civil; the dialogue Nancy remained mute occupied but a few minutes, and Tarrant went his way, sauntering landwards. As Mrs. Morgan had observed the meeting, it was necessary to offer her an explanation. But Jessica gave only the barest facts concerning their acquaintance, and Nancy spoke as though she hardly knew him.
Alarmed and irresolute, Cleer sat down on the rock, and facing landwards for awhile, waved her handkerchief to and fro to attract, if possible, her father's attention. Then she scanned the opposite cliffs, beyond the gap or chasm that separated her from the mainland; but she could nowhere see him.
Captain Len Guy gave orders for the lowering of the ship’s largest boat, in a voice which betrayed his impatience. The order was executed, and the captain, addressing West, said “Send eight men down with Martin Holt; send Hunt to the helm. Remain yourself at the moorings, and keep a look-out landwards as well as to sea.” “Aye, aye, sir; don’t be uneasy.”
The upper part was, to their naive surprise, mere climbing on all fours; and they reached the summit, visible from our halting-place, in two hours. Here they also were summarily stopped by perpendicular rocks on either side, and by the deep gorge or crevasse, shedding seawards and landwards, upon whose further side rose the "Parrot's Beak."
The vessel's flare had now burned out, and the guns and rockets from the lightships had ceased, and in front of the lifeboat was only the chill night, 'black as a wolf's throat. As they worked away from the shore there came in, borne landwards and towards them by the gale, the dull deep roar of the surf on the Goodwins. It is marvellous how far the sound of the sea on the Goodwins travels.
That dark, dreary horizon we just discern to the left is the West Bay, terminated landwards by the Chesil Beach. 'What time is it, Harry? 'Just past two. 'Are you going below? 'Oh no; not to-night. I prefer pure air. She fancied he might be displeased with her for coming to him at this unearthly hour. 'I should like to stay here too, if you will allow me, she said timidly.
I looked landwards, in the expectation of seeing some vessels come out of the harbour, which, I thought, could not be far off, but none appeared. Then I gazed anxiously to the northward, and round the horizon in all directions. Presently I saw a spot appear of snowy whiteness, glittering in the rays of the sun. It rapidly increased in size. "A sail! A sail!"
The storm abated, and, when it got quite light, it seemed to him that he knew where he was, and that it was outside his own homestead, Kvalholm, that he lay driving. He now began again to cry for help, but his chief hope was in a current which he knew bore landwards at a place where a headland broke in upon the surge, and there the water was calmer.
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