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"On receipt of my report, the manager would take what measures he might think necessary to protect our interests. "The captain of the Jean Guiton knew all about the affair, having been summoned with his boat to assist in the attempts at salvage. "He told me the story of the disaster.
Then why this affectation of coarseness, this borrowed aroma of the steward's mess and the forecastle? To the best of her ability she silently helped in the work of salvage. They made a queer collection. A case of champagne, and another of brandy. A box of books. A pair of night glasses. A compass.
Cappy queried. "The Sea Fox." "That's Matt Peasley's command," Cappy mused. "Lucky? I should say we are! It's up to the master of the tug very frequently whether, under such conditions, his task has been a mere towage job at the going rates or a salvage proposition to be settled in court. I dare say Matt will give us the benefit of the doubt and call it towage." "Don't deceive yourself!"
Presently you shall meet with your reward." Dayton-Philipps stared. Was the man going mad? "And that's what it is, sir, that makes me sure I shall bring this vessel into some port safely and pocket the salvage." "Look here, Skipper," said Dayton-Philipps, "you are just fagged to death, and I'm the same.
To it the town refuse and garbage was carted and it was regularly hauled over and searched by bands of men, women and children intent on salvage. "What shall I do with you?" groaned poor Rosemary. "After this, you'll have to stay in the yard, Shirley. You know Hugh would scold if he heard you were playing in the dump lot. Promise Sister you won't go away from the house to-morrow morning."
An English merchantman, separated from her convoy during a storm, was brought to by an enemy's lugger, which came up and told the master to stay by her till the storm was abated, when they would send a man on board; a British frigate coming up afterwards chased the lugger and took her, thus releasing the merchantman; the frigate was held entitled to salvage.
He doubted it, but alone, she could do nothing and Brainard would see that she was comfortable. The salvage money from the Egg would keep her from being a public charge. And he had more banked in Albertsville which he could send her once he got there. He'd start making plans to leave as soon as possible. Copper looked up at him as he stood above her bed.
In Hamlet, as it seems to me, we set foot as it were on the bridge between the middle and the final period of Shakespeare. That priceless waif of piratical salvage which we owe to the happy rapacity of a hungry publisher is of course more accurately definable as the first play of Hamlet than as the first edition of the play.
"You bought, I suppose, with Captain Benson's money." "S'pose it was his. We found it in his desk. But we've kept account of every cent expended, and bought no grub too good for a white man to eat." "What dismasted you?" They explained the meeting with the steamer and Seldom's misdoing; then requested information about the salvage laws. "Boys," said the pilot, "I'm sorry for you.
The lines on Poets and their Bibliographies, with The Dead Prophet, express Tennyson's lifelong abhorrence of the critics and biographers, whose joy is in the futile and the unimportant, in personal gossip and the sweepings of the studio, the salvage of the wastepaper basket.
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