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Updated: May 19, 2025
But still the Spaniard endures, magnificent as ever; it is the battle of the thresher and the whale; the end is certain, but the work is long. "Can I help you, Captain Leigh?" asked Lord Henry Seymour, as he passes within oar's length of him, to attack a ship ahead. "The San Matthew has had his dinner, and is gone on to Medina to ask for a digestive to it."
Though so gentle and quiet, she was often lost in sombre fancies; but when Dolf was near, her face lit up with smiles and her teeth were bright as a wet oar's blade shining in the sun. Then she no longer gloomed; the cloud which veiled sad memories was lifted, bright hopes irradiated her face, every line in which sparkled like whitebait in the meshes of a net.
Above the writhing figures in the middle of the boat, a tall man, upright in the stern-sheets, raved awful imprecations and shook his fists above his head. The blunt dinghy foamed past that vision within an oar's length, no more, making straight for the clamour of the fight.
In one of these evolutions it passed within oar's length of the row boat. "Keep on swearing!" cried Archie. "He's not a man; he's the devil!" The launch passed again, like a dark bird skimming the water, and he took off his shoes and threw aside his coat. "If that blackguard keeps this up we may have to swim for it! Give me the oars; I want to warm up!"
Both boats were in a wide avenue in the midst of the vessels, the usual track of those who went to sea, and there was no object whatever between them. By changing the course of his own boat, Don Camillo soon found himself within an oar's length of the other. He saw, at a glance, it was the treacherous gondola by which he had been duped.
At last, when we thought we were beginning to near her, we muffled our oars, and then paddled on again, both boats within oar's length of each other. "We pulled for about an hour, and then waited for some sign of her whereabouts for we reckoned we must be close aboard of her but it was that dark you couldn't see the length of your nose.
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