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If I can't lie down under an honest roof, I can find the lee-side of a hedge. 'I've been a kind father to you, Polly, my lad; I've let you want for nothing. 'You've let me want for an honest name. That's all. Good-bye. 'But, Polly Polly my own lad, my only lad you're all I've got to live for. What are you going to do? 'I shall take the Queen's shilling, and try my luck in the Crimea.
Having thus prepared all things as well as I was able, I set sail on the 24th day of September, 1701, at six in the morning; and when I had gone about four leagues to the northward, the wind being at southeast, at six in the evening I descried a small island, about half a league to the northwest. I advanced forward, and cast anchor on the lee-side of the island, which seemed to be uninhabited.
Man and horse at full stretch of the gallop were launching down the dip of the hollow the wind singing past on the top note of exhilaration when the bay, too well trained to shy, faltered a moment and broke his stride, as a figure started up from the lee-side of the ridge. The Collector sailing past and throwing a glance over his shoulder, saw the figure and lifted a hand.
"I die of thirst beside the fountain's edge," was but a poor performance. He would make better verses on the lee-side of a flagon at the sign of the Pomme du Pin, than in a cushioned settle in the halls of Blois. Charles liked change of place.
The Winkelried received the shock at a moment when the lee-side of her broad deck was wallowing in the trough, and its weather was protruded on the summit of a swell. The wind howled when it struck the pent limits, as if angered at being thwarted, and there was a roar under the wide gangways, resembling that of lions.
Ashford had borrowed Markham's telescope, and was looking towards the rock, where the shipwrecked crew had taken refuge. 'There is some one out of the boat, climbing on the rocks. Can you make him out, Jem? 'I see I see, said Mr. Brown; 'there are two of them. They are climbing along the lee-side of the long ridge of rocks.
Accordingly we shortened sail, and as we expected her upon our lee-side, we being then upon our starboard tack, brought eighteen of our guns to the larboard side, resolving to give him a broadside that should warm him.
But, no; he would not accept the olive branch. When it was time for me to relieve his watch, the mate invariably sent one of the hands to summon me, telling me through the same medium the course to be steered, and giving what orders were necessary for the working of the ship, so that there should be no occasion for any conversation between us; and it likewise happened that when we were on deck together, as was frequently the case during the day, he always walked on the weather side of the poop, while I took the leeward place that is, unless the skipper was there too, when of course the latter promenaded the more honourable beat, and I walked by his side, while Mr Macdougall had the lee-side then all to himself.
Turning his glances from this object forward, he saw that the galley-door to windward was shut, whilst on the lee-side it was open, the reflection of a light inside shining pretty strongly upon the lee bulwarks and showing the shadows of men evidently in the act of eating and drinking. "Do you see that?" whispered George to his two companions.
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