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There is but one on record who came there with beautiful clothes, and this poor girl, when last seen by the officers, was a pauper in the workhouse infirmary in a wretched condition. The lowest class of all is the girls who stand at the pier-head these sell themselves literally for a bare crust of bread and sleep in the streets.
I had just waved my hand to him as the boat was bearing him away from the pier-head, when a feminine voice murmured in my ear, 'Is not this our third meeting, Mr. Harry Richmond? Venice, Elbestadt, and the Isle of Wight? She ran on, allowing me time to recognize Clara Goodwin. 'What was your last adventure? You have been ill. Very ill? Has it been serious? I made light of it. 'No: a tumble.
And I am now as parched in the hide as I was that time in Naples when the helmsman sailed the brig on to the pier-head because a hurricane had risen, and Skipper Worse and I stood on the quay and cried, though he swore mostly, and I had a basket on my arm with something that they called bananas, which they fry in butter.
On the pier-head at Greyton their signals had indeed been observed, but while the Brentley boat, owing to its position, could run down to the wreck with all sail set, it was impossible for that of Greyton to reach it, except by pulling slowly against wind and tide. The instant that Bob Massey saw the flare of the first tar-barrel he had called out his men.
"It will be just like saying good-bye at the pier-head, and pushing off alone you can't get more than one into the boat out, out, alone, into the infinite ocean of nobody knows what or where," said Leopold. "Except those that are there already, and they will be waiting to receive you," said Polwarth. "You may well hope, if you have friends to see you off, you will have friends to welcome you too.
What good friends we have!" And presently they were near enough to wave a handkerchief in answer to the Baroness de Melide's vigorous salutations. The yacht crept round the pier-head, and was soon made fast to a small white buoy.
It was a bad night for a journey too. Could she be going to see some friend who was dying? At every station I looked out to see if my young lady left the train; but no, not even at Southampton. Was she going on to France? 'I must look out for her at the pier-head, I said to myself.
In 1816 these baths were discontinued and pulled down on the opening of George's Pier-head baths. For a mile or more there was good bathing on the shore. The bathing machines were introduced about the end of the last century. I recollect all the docks and streets from Bath-street downwards being sand-hills and salt-marshes.
Down here they call such escapes, 'pier-head jumps. There is suddenly a roar from the beach, and a nigger runs down to the water pursued by clouds of spears and arrows. Of course, Johnny Be-blowed's whale-boat is lying ready to pick him up. In his last days Johnny got nothing but pier-head jumps. "And the first owners of Berande bought his recruits a hard-bitten gang of murderers.
The captain stood on the bridge between the paddles giving directions to the steersman, and everything gave promise of a speedy and happy landing. A heavy sea, however, was still running, filling the bay to the northward of the harbour with foaming breakers, while the pier-head was engulfed in clouds of spray as each billow rolled past it and fell in thunder on the bar.
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