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Then she added, with a little whimsical sigh, "He had a bonanza harvest last fall, any way." They moved aft soon afterwards, and the Scarrowmania was smoothly sliding seawards with the first of the ebb when Agatha met Wyllard.
An evening wind, sharp with brine, was blowing in from the ocean, stirring the surface of the long creeks into silent ripples, and bending landwards the thin streaks of white smoke rising amongst the red-tiled roofs of the village. I felt the delicate sting of it upon my cheeks. Lady Angela half closed her eyes as she turned her face seawards. "I came for this," she murmured.
"God grant them success!" murmured Mrs Bright, earnestly. "Amen!" responded the younger woman. "But, Nell, you haven't told me yet what you think o' the Miss Seawards." "Think? I think that next to Miss Ruth they are the sweetest ladies I ever met," returned Mrs Bright with enthusiasm.
A seaplane that had been riding on the surface near the Fleet Flagship's quarter, rose like a flying gull, circled in wide spirals over the Fleet and sped seawards.
I turned my gaze again seawards: the mist was drawing nearer, threatening to envelop our boats in its embrace. How cold it was! The upper deck was now full of officers, busily putting on their life-belts I had secured mine to my kit-bag, ready to put it on when required. At that moment an officer came up to me. "Have you a life-belt?" he said, "if so would you mind putting it on?
Beneath lay rocks of all sizes and of fantastic forms, some fallen from the cape in tempests perhaps, some softly separated from it by the slow action of the winds and waves of centuries. A few of them formed, by their broken defence seawards, the unsafe natural harbour which was all the place enjoyed.
"A rocket!" repeated he, contemptuously; "that's some landsman's story thou hast been listening to. A rocket would bring the whole fleet of boats from Tréport on her. No, no; they know better than that: the faintest glimmer of a fishing-craft is all they 'll dare to show. But see how steadily it burns now! we must make the signal seawards." "Halloo, Joseph! a light there."
When Captain Bream, as before mentioned, was obliged to hurry off to London, and forsake the Miss Seawards, as well as his theological studies, he hastened to that portion of the city where merchants and brokers, and money-lenders, and men of the law do love to congregate.
From thence a double row of heavy footprints led to the shelving bit of beach where it was the custom for boats to land from seawards. "See, your honour, see," cried René, in deepest agitation, "the print of this little shoe, here and there, and here again, right down to the water's edge. Thank God thank God! My Lady has had no accident. She has gone with the sailors to the boat.
In this wise we opened out, presently, the end of the hill; but feeling now the force of the breeze, we bent a kedge to the hawser, and, the bo'sun carrying it seawards, we warped ourselves to windward of the island, and here, in forty fathoms, we vast heaving, and rode to the kedge.
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