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Updated: May 16, 2025
When it did not open he pushed it harder. It gave a little at the top, but, to her great relief, the brace held. After a little she heard his measured tramp again. And again there was silence. Janet, unable to endure the suspense, put her eye to the knot-hole. The intruder, a tall piratical-looking figure, was standing between her and the fire; she could see his general build in black.
A baker's boy and two fish-wives, trundling their carts, stopped to witness the last act of the play. Even the dogs beneath the carts, as they sank, panting, to the ground, followed, with red-rimmed eyes, the closing scenes of the little drama. "Allons, let us end this," cried a piratical-looking captain, in a loud, masterful voice. And he named a price lower than the others had bid.
Tradition hints that this money was buried when a certain piratical-looking craft was seen hovering about the coast. This wealth is all gone now scattered among the people who have allowed the dear old mission to fall into sad decay.
Marietta shrugged her shoulders, and waved her hands. "Then tell him, please, to go and put the necessary touches to his toilet," said Peter. "Meanwhile I'll indite the letter." When his letter was indited, he found the piratical-looking Gigi in attendance, and he gave it to him, with instructions.
That piratical-looking fellow, appropriately named the man-of-war’s-hawk, with his blood-red bill and raven plumage, would come sweeping round us in gradually diminishing circles, till you could distinctly mark the strange flashings of his eye; and then, as if satisfied with his observation, would sail up into the air and disappear from the view.
"Those dhows, and low, dark, piratical-looking schooners, have considerably more interest to us, however," said Adair; "they are not employed in any honest calling, depend on that; and there lie two Spaniards and a Yankee. If they have no slaves on board, they will have before long, and we must do our best to catch them.
In the 'good old times' those piratical-looking craft would pick up a long thirty-feet baulk of timber at sea timber vessels from the Baltic or coming across the Atlantic often lose some of their deck-load and when engaged in towing it ashore would be pounced upon by the revenue officers, who would only find, to their own discomfiture, amidst the hearty 'guffaws' of the boatmen, that the latter were merely trying to earn 'salvage' by towing the timber ashore.
"You're right, old fellow; she's the `Blazer, 74, Captain Evans, bound for England. Took a run farther south than usual after a piratical-looking craft, but missed her. Gave up the chase, and came to this island to get water. Little thought we should find you on it. Astonish the captain rather when we go back. Of course you'll want us to take you home. Will you go off with me at once?"
Suddenly a lantern gleamed, then a second and a third, and a dark, bearded face a fierce and piratical-looking face began running along outside the door. The last box and the last bag went off, and with a sudden movement the train-man hauled David to the door. "Jump!" he cried. The face and the lantern had fallen behind, and it was as black as an abyss outside.
So still was the atmosphere, so unruffled the water, that the island and the piratical-looking schooner seemed to float in the centre of a duplex world, where every cloudlet in the blue above had its exact counterpart in the blue below.
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