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Updated: July 6, 2025
After a time she heard, in the house below, her father shouting her name. She gave the glass one more comprehensive sweep preparatory to closing it and going downstairs. As she did this a moving speck came into view and vanished. Slowly she moved the big end of the spyglass back along the arc it had traveled. She found the speck and watched it.
The sun was shining from a clear, balmy sky, for summer had come, when Deerfoot swept every portion of the visible horizon with the spyglass without detecting a sign of red men. To the westward towered the immense Laramie range, while the plains stretched eastward and were crossed by numerous streams, on whose banks thriving towns and cities have been built in later days.
The chief officer kept lifting his spyglass and stubbornly examining the horizon, walking up and down, stamping his foot, in his nervous agitation a sharp contrast to his superior. But this mystery would inevitably be cleared up, and soon, because Captain Nemo gave orders to increase speed; at once the engine stepped up its drive power, setting the propeller in swifter rotation.
More than that, if we have to run within spyglass reach of the forts at the Inlet, we'll hoist the rebel flag with the Stars and Stripes above it, to make the Confederates think that she has been captured by the Yankees." "But we haven't any rebel flag," said Marcy. "What's the reason we haven't?
Having examined and folded up every article of clothing in the chest, the tools, spyglass, &c., were put by me on the shelves, and then we examined the box containing the thread, needles, fishhooks, and other articles, such as buttons, &c. "These are valuable," said she; "I have some of my own to put along with them.
"I'll shy the spyglass at you directly," I muttered; and then aloud, "Fire, sir; both junks blazing."
"Me an' my missis couldn't help seein' you an' Doris a-lookin' at the stars through a spyglass when us were goin' to bed," persisted Bates. "We heerd your voices quite plain. Once 'ee fixed the glass low down, an' said, 'That's serious.
At all events, he let her come within a couple of gunshots before calling down to the cabin and giving the alarm. I had my legs up on a locker, and was taking a siesta over a book 'Parkinson On The Dog' and, by the way, we were a set of fools not to bring a dog; but I ran up the companion in a jiffy, and had the sense to catch up your spyglass as I went.
It was not in his power to land me, as I trust you will not hesitate to do; your conjecture of my being a non-combatant " "Is perfectly true," interrupted Barnstable; "it requires no spyglass to read that name written on you from stem to stern: but for certain weighty reasons " He paused to turn at a signal given him by young Merry, who whispered eagerly, in his ear: "'Tis Mr.
I know the flag, it is the red flag that the stranger gentleman planted on the peak, when he had climbed the Gars with the young hunter, so that the reverend father could see it with his spyglass, and that was to be the sign that they had reached the top, and the stranger gentleman gave him the flag afterward as a present. You were a real small child, then." "Yes, Conrad."
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