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And in the meantime she was glad enough to be as happy as she was, and to be near Durkin. It was not the happiness she had once looked for, but it sufficed. They caught sight of a corner of Corsica, and on the following night could see the glow of the iron-smelting fires on Elba, and the twinkle of the island shore-lights.
Then, with the suddenness characteristic of all that drew near in the fog, the shore-lights grew rapidly bigger and more bright. The rowers lay back on their paddles at a sharp word of command from one of the oarsmen in Stern's boat. Came a grating, a sliding of keels on pebbles. The boat stopped. Others came up to land. From them men began clambering. The song died.
She had struck during the first mate's watch. He gave evidence that his superior, Mr. Rands, had said nothing about the course. For his own part he had supposed the ship to be a good fifteen miles from the coast. They had sighted no shore-lights to warn them: but the weather was hazy. Five minutes before the catastrophe Mr.
It upheld me, too, when I went on deck and watched the 'pretty beat', whose prettiness was mainly due to the crowd of fog-bound shipping steamers, smacks, and sailing-vessels now once more on the move in the confined fairway of the fiord, their baleful eyes of red, green, or yellow, opening and shutting, brightening and fading; while shore-lights and anchor-lights added to my bewilderment, and a throbbing of screws filled the air like the distant roar of London streets.
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