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"War, however, interferes with trade, and the French line have reduced their sailings, while I expect the small British tramps won't be so numerous." "They have nothing to fear in these waters." "I suppose they haven't, and vessels belonging to neutral countries ought to be safe," said Dick.
His heaven at present was truly in the skies, and not in that only other place where they say it can be found, in the eyes of some daughter of Eve. Would any Circe or Calypso and if so, what one? ever check this pale-haired scientist's nocturnal sailings into the interminable spaces overhead, and hurl all his mighty calculations on cosmic force and stellar fire into Limbo?
Daly's love affairs had nothing to do with him, but in order to save the girl embarrassment he waited until they opened a door. Foster imagined it led to a music or drawing-room, but passed without looking in, and going up a flight of stairs spent some time in his room, studying the railway guide and a list of steamship sailings.
Presently he heard its pounding, and the dustless slopes rolled into the gray.... Now he sniffed the acute fragrance that rushed before it in the wind, and then it climbed the drive, deluged the hacienda, and was gone.... In the moist, sweet, yellow light that filled his eyes, Bedient, fallen into deeps of contemplation, saw the face of a woman. He went inside and looked up the Dryden sailings.
It saw the start of Richard Lion-Heart's transports, filled with the chivalry of England, on their way to challenge the power of Islam. The town records show that 800 hogs were supplied by the citizens for feeding the army en route. Perhaps the most famous of the sailings was that of the twenty-one ships that carried the English army to the victory of Creçy.
Lady Claire looked up quickly. Her voice showed her struck with sudden surprise. "You are going so soon?" "To-morrow." "To Assouan?" Odd sharpness edged the question. He waited a perceptible moment, though his resolution had been taken. "Back to Cairo." "Oh ... How long shall you be there?" "Just till I get sailings. It's time for me to be off.
Then he went back to the banker's, and with the help of the Paris-New York Chronicle which he found there, he got the sailings of the first steamers home.
It must be some place where there were several staircases, and one marked out from the others by having thirty-nine steps. Then I had a sudden thought, and hunted up all the steamer sailings. There was no boat which left for the Continent at 10.17 p.m. Why was high tide so important? If it was a harbour it must be some little place where the tide mattered, or else it was a heavy-draught boat.
Then you saw the papers this morning? All sailings between here and a certain little spot we know of have been stopped without a moment's warning. I am compelled to pause in several most interesting schemes." "Nothing for me, I suppose?" Granet asked, a little nervously. Sir Alfred looked at him. "Not for the moment," he replied, "but there will be very soon. Take hold of yourself Ronnie.
He was next, and without interval of rest, given command of a squadron to operate against Havre, where were gathering boats and munitions of war for the threatened invasion of England; with the charge also of suppressing the French coastwise sailings, upon which depended the assembling of the various bodies of transports, and the carriage of supplies to the fleet in Brest, that Hawke at the same time was holding in check.
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