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Updated: May 6, 2025
The day closed in, but the fog still continued; the rain poured down in torrents on those half naked men, and the piercing north-east wind made them shiver as it swept over them in their thin and sea-soaked garments. At last all desire for sleep was banished, and rising from their uncomfortable lodging places, each one looked out into the darksome night in hopes of discovering a delivering ship.
We had been washed from our little platform, which ordinarily lifted us above the lapping of the sea during the prevalence of the storm and we regained it now, glad to repose even on the sea-soaked mattresses bereft of awning. "A cup of coffee would not be amiss just now," said the girl, laughing, "but the Lord knows we can wait."
The place possessed the curious property of being ever filled with a ceaseless murmur, as though it were some aerial maelstrom, drawing into its silent vacuum all wandering waves of sound from the restless human ocean flowing round it. No single tone could one ever distinguish: it was a mingling of all voices, heard there like the murmur of a sea-soaked shell. We passed through it on our return.
I leaned over them for a moment, telling myself that I paused only to admire the strange colours drawn by the sunlight from the sea-soaked wilderness, the deep brown, the strange purple, the faint pink of the distant sands. But it was none of these which my eyes sought with such fierce eagerness.
He thought of the energy that had gone to build this wonderful city; the deep sea-soaked wooden piles hidden beneath; the exhaustless art treasures churches, pictures, sculptures no less built on obscure human labor, though a few of the innumerable dead hands had signed names. What measureless energy petrified in these palaces!
"Bonjour, madame!" returns Suzette, her cheeks flushed from her kitchen fire. The word "madame" seems out of place, for Mère Marianne wears her man's short tarpaulin coat cinched about her waist with a thin tarred rope. Her sinewy legs, bare to the knees, are tightly incased in a pair of sea-soaked trousers.
Neither the wet planking on which they were compelled to encouch themselves, nor the sea-soaked garments clinging round their bodies, hindered them from obtaining sleep. In a colder clime their condition would have been sufficiently comfortless; but in the ocean atmosphere of the torrid zone the night hours are warm enough to render "wet sheets" not only endurable, but at times even pleasant.
But his courtesy was put to no such extreme test He made a move at last which brought him within a few feet of the Tortoise. A mere patch of sea-soaked mud remained uncovered. The water, advancing from the far side of the bank, already lapped against the bows of the Tortoise. Miss Rutherford woke up to the fact that the time for catching sponges was past.
It was a little old leather-bound New Testament, sea-soaked; and between the leaves of it the Articles of War. The book fell open at the fly-leaf. On it three names were written, each in a different hand. Horatio Nelson, Christopher Caryll, William Harding. A bracket bound the three, and opposite the bracket, in the same hand as the first name, the words, England and Duty.
Entranced, we paddle on until we leave behind all trace of ocean swell, and if the tide be low so that old sea-soaked snags are seen upon the shore, and boulders thick with barnacles and varied coloured sea-weeds in shades of brown and red, and here and there great clusters of blue mussel shells, these all, if the water be calm and undisturbed by wind, are mirrored on the surface of the stream, forming pictures most rare and beautiful.
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