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"So she does," returned the captain, "but that device won't go down with me. Board her at once, while I bring our broadside to bear." The mate, with two boats full of armed men, soon pulled alongside the strange sail, and the pirate-vessel was brought round with her broadside to bear by means of long oars or sweeps.
Amasis clasped his son to his heart, and when the high-priest had concluded his prayer, the following colloquy between the latter and Amasis took place in low tones: "Let peace be between us for our own and Egypt's sake!" "Hast thou received Nebenchari's letter?" "A Samian pirate-vessel is in pursuit of Phanes' trireme."
The name by which he was known to the crew of the pirate-vessel was "Cain," and well had he chosen this appellation; for, had not his hand for more than three years been against every man's, and every man's hand against his? In person he was about six feet high, with a breadth of shoulders and of chest denoting the utmost of physical force which, perhaps, has ever been allotted to man.
"We will all beg him to cure you, dear Ulla," said Frolich, stroking the old woman's white hair smooth upon her forehead. "But he tells us shocking things. There is a pirate-vessel among the islands. She was seen off Soroe, some time ago; but she is much nearer to us now.
Amasis clasped his son to his heart, and when the high-priest had concluded his prayer, the following colloquy between the latter and Amasis took place in low tones: "Let peace be between us for our own and Egypt's sake!" "Hast thou received Nebenchari's letter?" "A Samian pirate-vessel is in pursuit of Phanes' trireme."
This was indeed the case, for the vessel was by that time flying before a stiff breeze, with all the sail set that she could carry, while the water dashed in clouds from her bows, and rushed over her lee bulwarks. But the sailing powers of the pirate-vessel were superior to those of the trading schooner.
Accordingly, the course is for the cruiser to stand out to sea, and not allow herself to be seen in the offing the crime is consummated the slaves are stowed away the pirate captain weighs anchor the pirate-vessel freighted with victims, and manned by criminals fares forth the cruiser, the British cruiser, gives chace and then begin those scenes of horror, surpassing all that the poet ever conceived, whose theme was the torments of the damned and the wickedness of the fiends.
"And what business can he have among the islands?" "I could say that with more certainty if I knew exactly where the pirate-vessel is." "That is your idea, Erica," said her mistress. "I saw what your thoughts were, an hour ago, before we knew all this." "I was thinking then, madam, that if Hund was gone to join the pirates, Nipen would be very ready to give them a wind just now.
Amasis clasped his son to his heart, and when the high-priest had concluded his prayer, the following colloquy between the latter and Amasis took place in low tones: "Let peace be between us for our own and Egypt's sake!" "Hast thou received Nebenchari's letter?" "A Samian pirate-vessel is in pursuit of Phanes' trireme."
She was, indeed, obliged to suppose, at last, that it was his choice to keep away; for amidst the flying rumours that amused the inhabitants of the district for the rest of the winter, rumours of the movements of the pirate-vessel, and of the pranks of the spirits of the region, there were some such clear notices of the appearance of Hund, so many eyes had seen him in one place or another, by land and water, by day and night, that Stiorna could not doubt of his being alive, and free to come home or stay away as he pleased.
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