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"The Madre is ill; she has very bad pains in her legs, and sent me to bring these cocoons to the Santissima Nunziata, because they're so wonderful; see!" she held up the bunch of cocoons, which were arranged with fortuitous regularity on a stem, "and she had kept them to bring them herself, but she couldn't, and so she sent me because she thinks the Holy Madonna may take away her pains; and somebody took my bag with the bread and chestnuts in it, and the people pushed me back, and I was so frightened coming in the crowd, and I couldn't get anywhere near the Holy Madonna, to give the cocoons to the Padre, but I must oh, I must."
"They told me afterwards that Nelson gave orders to steer straight for the bow of the great Santissima Trinidad, and remarked, `It's too warm work to last long, but he did not return a single shot, though about fifty of our men had been killed and wounded. You see, he never was fond of wastin' powder an' shot. He generally reserved his fire till it could be delivered with stunnin' effect.
"And every minute their fire grew hotter, and their aim truer down came our mizzen-topgallant-mast, and hung down over our quarter; away went our bowsprit but we held on till we struck their line 'twixt the 'Santissima Trinidado' and the 'Beaucenture, and, as we crossed the Spanisher's wake, so close that our yard-arms grazed her gilded starn, up flashed his Honor's sword, 'Now, lads! cried he, hailing the guns and then why then, afore I'd took my whistle from my lips, the old 'Bully-Sawyer, as had been so patient, so very patient, let fly wi' every starboard gun as it bore, slap into the great Spanisher's towering starn, and, a moment arter, her larboard guns roared and flamed as her broadside smashed into the 'Beaucenture, and 'bout five minutes arterwards we fell aboard o' the 'Fougeux, and there we lay, young sir, and fought it out yard-arm to yard-arm, and muzzle to muzzle, so close that the flame o' their guns blackened and scorched us, and we was obliged to heave buckets o' water, arter every discharge, to put out the fire.
Admiral Collingwood led the southern, and got into action first, just astern of the `Santa Anna. We steered so as to pass between the `Bucentaur' and the `Santissima Trinidade. "`Well, there are a lot of the enemy, exclaimed Tom Collins to me, as I was standing near the gun he served. "`Yes, mate, said I; `and a pretty spectacle they will make at Spithead when we carry them there.
Vincent, the Santissima Trinidad, distinguished by her size, and opened his fire at four minutes after twelve, engaging the Redoubtable with his starboard, the Santissima Trinidad and Bucentaur with his larboard guns. About a quarter past one, a musket-ball, fired from the mizzen-top of the Redoubtable, struck him on the left shoulder, and he fell. From the first he felt the wound to be mortal.
Santissima Maria! what would I give to know the ways of the town as well as my cousin Annina, who passes at will from her father's shop to the Lido, and from St. Mark's to the Rialto, as her pleasure suits. I will send for my cousin, who will counsel us in this fearful strait!" "Thy cousin! Hast thou a cousin named Annina?" "Lady, Annina. My mother's sister's child."
"Eels!" ejaculates the gaucho. "Eels! Surely you're jesting?" queries the incredulous youth. "No, indeed," is the hurried rejoinder. "I only wish it were a jest. It's not, but a dire, dangerous earnest. Santissima!" he cries out, in addition, as a shock like that of a galvanic battery causes him to shake in his saddle, "that's a lightning eel, for sure!
"Take me away, take me away!" she moaned, hiding her face against my breast. "'Tis a vault oh, Santissima Madonna! a place for the dead! Quick quick! take me out to the air let us go home home " She broke off abruptly, her alarm increasing at my utter silence. She gazed up at me with wild wet eyes. "Cesare! Cesare! speak! What ails you? Why have you brought me here?
Salvador del Mundo strikes to the Orion, and is taken possession of by her lieutenant. Engages the Santissima Trinidada. She strikes to the Orion. Remarks on that occasion. Lagos Bay. Lisbon. Sir James sails on a cruise with Admiral Sir H. Nelson. Returns. Commands the advanced squadron. Several private letters. Commands the advanced squadron off Cadiz. Mutiny in the fleet.
There were plenty to pick and choose from; and Nelson looked out sharp for a big one, as little boys do when they have to choose an apple: and, by the piper that played before Moses! it was a big one that he ordered the master to put him alongside of. She was a four-decker, called the Santissima Trinidad.
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