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"Mother," said the woman, shutting the window, "it's only a little sailor-boy, a stranger, and he's wet through." She immediately unbarred and opened the door, and invited him to come in. Stepping beyond the threshold, she closed the door against the storm, and placing a chair at the fire, told him to sit down and warm himself.
The nurse gave her a powerful sedative, and strove to divert her thoughts; but ever and anon she shuddered and whispered, "It was not a dream. I saw my dear sailor-boy, and he was hurt and bleeding. I know what I saw; and if you and Hester swore till every star dropped out of heaven, I would not believe you. If I am old and dying, my eyes are better than yours. My poor Ulpian!"
"Do you remember the poor sailor-boy Daniel?" "I never saw him," said Doome. "No, friend sailor, you need not squeeze my hand, I never did see him." "Well, he has grown a man, and has come home." "Then," said Jodoque, "I suppose I may go home." "Come home? where is he? Still, my sailor friend, I can't tell why you should tremble." "Yes, he has come home; and if he will have me, I will marry him."
The contract embraced, also, the making of soundings and the marking out of a channel through Suisun Bay. We hired, in San Francisco, a small metallic boat, with a sail, laid in some stores, and proceeded to the United States ship Ohio, anchored at Saucelito, where we borrowed a sailor-boy and lead-lines with which to sound the channel.
You are curious to know whither so many are wending their way, and meeting a sailor-boy, he tells you it is "fifth day," and if you follow in the wake of the "slick bonnets," they will pilot you to their nearest light-house; but precious little light you will get unless the spirit move some of them to pick up the wick.
There, true to his charge, was little Tommy, in his nicest blue rig, tipped off a la man-o'-war touch, with his palmetto-braid hat, a long black ribbon displayed over the rim, his hair combed so slick, and his little round face and red cheeks so plump and full of the sailor-boy pertness, with his blue, braided shirt-collar laid over his jacket, and set off around the neck, with a black India handkerchief, secured at the throat with the joint of a shark's backbone.
Presently black night overshadowed our enthusiast, who had so entirely missed his part of copying-clerk at a police-office; some vast object seemed to be thrown over him. It was a large oil-skin cap, which a sailor-boy of the quay had thrown over the struggling bird; a coarse hand sought its way carefully in under the broad rim, and seized the clerk over the back and wings.
Then, when at last the poor sailor-boy in the story was so full that he could not take another bite not even a bite of pancake on which his mother in her upsetting had sprinkled salt instead of sugar that poem came to an end, and by way of a change Aunt Jeanne plunged headlong into "Ma Tante est une mênagère Coum je cré qu'i gn'y'en
But the vision came and vanished. Never was there a belle so much in request as the lively Sara. Only once, Olive looked at her, and remembered the sailor-boy, who was, perhaps, tossing in some awful night-storm, or lying on the lonely deck, in the midst of the wide Atlantic. And she thought, that when her time came to love and be loved, she would not take everything quite so easily as Sara.
On the morning of July 8, having finished his arrangements for the Hunts and spent one day in showing the noble sights of Pisa, Shelley, after making purchases for their house and obtaining money from his banker, accompanied by Trelawny during the forenoon, was ready by noon to embark on the Ariel with Edward Williams and the sailor-boy, Charles Vivian.
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