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Updated: June 14, 2025
But we knelt there without unreality, with the river running swift behind us; for we knelt where a holy child had once knelt before a radiant vision, and with even more reason; for even if the one, as some say, had been an hallucination, were those sick folk an hallucination? Was Pierre de Rudder's mended leg an hallucination, or the healed wounds of Marie Borel?
For they hearken to such a blast through all the swish and sweat, Through rattle and rumpus and raps, and the kicks and cuffs that they get, Through the chatter and tread, and the rudder's wash, and the dismal clank Of the shameful chain which forever binds the slave to the bank.
May this Ulysses never reach his home! or, if the Fates have ordered that he should reach it, may he come alone, all his comrades lost, and come to find sore trouble in his house! "And as he ended, he hurled another mighty rock, which almost lighted on the rudder's end, yet missed it as by a hair's breadth. And the wave that it raised was so great that it bare us to the other shore.
A heavy bump followed. "Up centreboard," said Priscilla. "I knew it was shallow." Frank pulled vigorously. Another bump followed. "Bother!" said Priscilla. "We're done now." The Tortoise swept up into the wind Her sails flapped helplessly. "What's the matter?" said Miss Rutherford. "Rudder's gone," said Priscilla. "That last bump unshipped it." She held the useless tiller in her hand.
Fortunate person whose sails are filled with breezes from heaven, for craft of this kind go forward guided rightly, almost without the rudder's aid! George pursued at the institute a three years' course, leading up to the degree of Bachelor of Science. After the first two years he took less higher mathematics and more natural history, chemistry, and geology.
"Why, you set that for north or west or any other way, an' the hull machine keeps headed that way until ye change it." "Oh, is that the rudder?" "No, that is fer settin' jest one course fer a long ride like's ef we was goin' north to the pole, ye know. The rudder's in here, 'long with the other machinery." He walked to one of the two doors which faced the state-rooms.
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