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The first was to live until he had saved as many lives as his carelessness had lost in the Nerbuddha. For it was nothing worse, but mere forgetfulness to change the course: one of those dreadful lapses of memory which baffle all Board of Trade inquiry.
I've always guessed there was something queer about that Nerbuddha business: though till now I've never told a soul my chief reason for believing so.
Well, I took the responsibility, and charge myself with any wrong you have committed, letting your confidence stand to your credit, as well as the service you have done for me and another. Do you know the grey marble tablet on the south wall of the church the Nerbuddha monument?" I nodded.
You remember the night after the wreck of the Nerbuddha: the night you took a turn in Lansulyan Church, watching the bodies? You came to me in the morning with a story which I chose to laugh at "'About the face at the window, you mean? Dick gave a mock shudder. 'I suppose my nerves were shaken.
The Nerbuddha had gone down under her as she stood there beside her husband, steadied by his hand on her shoulder. Both bodies were afterwards recovered. "Altogether fifty-two were buried in this parish: other bodies were washed ashore or picked up from time to time, some at great distances up and down the Channel.
He's been gardener here for fifteen sixteen how many years is it, John? "'Then, said I, 'I suppose you were here before the wreck of the Nerbuddha, and knew Miss Felicia's parents? "The man gave a start, and his hat, which he had pulled off, and with the brim of which he was fumbling, slipped from his fingers and rolled on the turf. "'Oh, yes, I forgot! put in Dick.
"'Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Stanhope, C.B., and 105 Officers and Men of Her Majesty's 2-th Regiment of Foot, lost in the wreck of the Nerbuddha, East Indiaman, on Menawhidden, January 15th, 1857. . . . Then follows a list of the officers.
He was in his cabin, but came on deck at once, ready dressed; and had, with Colonel Stanhope's assistance, kept admirable order, getting out the three boats as promptly as possible. A fourth had actually been launched, and was being manned when the vessel plunged and stove her in as she went down. "That is as much as needs be told about the Nerbuddha.
"But they do not know and you are to be one of the four persons in the world who know that John Emmet was no other than John Murchison, the captain who lost the 'Nerbuddha'! He had come ashore in the darkness some five minutes before I had surprised him on the beach: had come ashore clinging to the keg which I saw floating just beyond the breakers.
Underneath, if you remember, is a separate slab to the officers and crew of the Nerbuddha, who behaved admirably, all the senior officers keeping order to the last and going down with the ship." I nodded again, for I knew the inscriptions pretty well by heart. "The wreck happened in the first winter of my incumbency here. Then, as now, I had one pupil living with me, an excellent fellow.
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