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Carelessly enough I looked up, and saw that she was beating and brushing my father's uniform, previous to hanging it over a rail, so as to guard it from decay by exposure to the sun. I sat looking at the bright scarlet and gold lace, and saw that she had brought out the cap too.
A distant glimpse of brilliant scarlet flowers, standing like sentinels in uniform against the dark green of the undergrowth, beckoned like a hand. With a laugh Charlotte set her foot upon the bottom rail. "I'm coming," she called blithely to the scarlet flowers. "You needn't shout so loud at me."
Springing on the rail like an antelope, she would have plunged overboard to the rescue of her friend, regardless of her own inability to swim, and of everything else, had not a seaman, who chanced to be listening to the conversation caught her with a vice-like grip. "Hold on, Peggy!" he cried.
I involuntarily took hold of the rail the madman attempted to jump over the flighty lady screamed and embraced more closely her poodle-dog; we reached the ledge one narrow space free from rocks appeared down with one plunge went the bow into a turmoil of foam and we had "shot the cataract" of La Chine.
Besides, as I reclined there on my cosy bed, a medley of voices would often float in to me through the half-opened port and I could visualize the owners of those voices as they sat ranged in steamer chairs, along the deck. I quote: "You, Raymund! You get down off that rail this minute." ... "My dear, you just ought to go to mine!
'O Thou, the One, whose grace doth all the world embrace; * Thine ears have heard, Thine eyes have seen my case! Privation and distress have dealt me heavy blows; * The woes that weary me no utterance can trace. I am like one athirst who eyes the landscape's eye, * Yet may not drink a draught of streams that rail and race.
"Winter time, yes." "First I'd single-reef the mains'l. Then I'd hold her up a little not too much me being skipper would be to the wheel myself and then I'd give the order, 'Dories to the rail! and then, when everything was all right when I'd be satisfied we wouldn't foul the next vessel's trawls I'd call out, 'Over with your wind'ard dory!"
"Good luck to you, and many thanks for tellin' me about this broken rail. 'Tis poor Jimmie who'd be blamed for not seein' it, and him with a sick wife. Good-bye to you!" The girls, satisfied that the train would be flagged in time, soon left the track, the last glimpse they had of the workman being as he hurried off to summon his partner to replace the broken rail.
For a moment Lingard thought of picking up the pistols he had taken out of his belt preparatory to joining Jorgenson in the boat, thinking it would be better to go to a big talk completely unarmed. They were lying on the rail but he didn't pick them up. Four shots didn't matter. They could not matter if the world of his creation were to go to pieces. He said nothing of that to Mrs.
They had broken their journey with a night's rest, and they had helped themselves lavishly out by rail in the last half; but still it had been a mighty walk to do in two days. Clemens was a great walker, in those years, and was always telling of his tramps with Mr. Twichell to Talcott's Tower, ten miles out of Hartford. As he walked of course he talked, and of course he smoked.
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