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Then his wife, loving a life in the country, and weary of the marin harmony of the sea-birds, declared how great joy she found in frequenting the woodlands, in the following strain: "The shrill bird vexes me as I tarry by the shore, and with its chattering rouses me when I cannot sleep.
The tramp of the seamen, the hoarse voice of the captain, the shrill cry of the sea-birds, betokened, however, nothing of dread or danger; and listlessly I leaned upon my elbow and asked what was going forward. "Nothing, sir; only making ready to drop our anchor." "Are we so near shore, then?" said I. "You've only to round that point to windward, and have a clear run into Cork harbor."
He might well admire that glen; its steep and rugged sides were veiled with lichens, moss, and wild-flowers, and the sea-birds found safe refuge in its lonely windings, which were colored with topaz and emerald by the pencillings of nature and the rich stains of time. "Yes," answered Montagu, "I always stick up for Avon Glen as the finest scene we've got about here.
Between the black worm-eaten headlands there are little bights and havens, well screened from the wind and the commotion of the external sea, where the sand and weeds look up into the gazer's face from a depth of tranquil water, and the sea-birds, screaming and flickering from the ruined crags, alone disturb the silence and the sunshine.
He put his finger on a little spot some leagues from the coast of Africa. "Know you the Isle of Doom?" said he. "Ay, 'tis a lonely heap of rocks." "A roost of sea-birds," said the prince of Judea. "Know you who am I?" "You are the son of Herod." "And I go to be king of the Jews." Antipater took from a bag many pieces of gold and heaped them on the chart above the Isle of Doom.
"Young Beck, I hear, has been out about Torungen the whole year shooting sea-birds or do you really think he means to marry her?" he broke out wildly, and raising his voice. It was only now that she caught his full meaning; and setting down the candlestick hard upon the table, she dropped into the chair by the side herself. "So that is what they are saying, is it?" she cried at last.
But what sort of a rock was it you were trying to draw?" "A strange-looking, conical rock, that stands alone in front of one of the ridges that project from the shore into the water. Three sea-birds, with long white wings, were flying about it, and the little waves of the rising tide were beating themselves against it and breaking in white plashes.
The red glare had faded from the waters, the sea-birds were settling in their nests, but the government-ships were alive with lights, and, suddenly bursting through the night, came the shrill blast of a trumpet from Cecil Place. It called Robin Hays into activity, and, while the men were looking on each other, he advanced and spoke.
As Girolamo issued from his own portal, closely followed by Stino and the other superintendents of the great stabilimento who were filled with foreboding at this sudden and surprising decision of their good master, several gondolas wearing the colors of the Giustiniani floated into the waterway from the broad lagoon; and with them, like a flock of sea-birds in their habits of gray and their cowls of white, came the sisters of San Donato, returning from that early chanted Mass at the palazzo Giustiniani which had been a dream of the Lady Marina's happier days.
Sea-birds caught the first breath of storm and wheeled landward with shrill calls, and once La Chesnaye and I made out through the ship's glass a vast herd of caribou running to sniff the gale from the crest of an inland hill. "If Radisson comes not back soon we are storm-bound here for the winter. As you live, we are," grumbled the merchant.
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