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No sooner had we arrived than the admiral sent for Captain Morris, one of the most trusted of his commanders, and ordered him to take eight hundred of the best men from the different ships, and to land at the back of Tresco, which is next in size to Saint Mary's, and lies close to it. Lieutenant Blake and I, with a small body of seamen from our ship, accompanied the troops.
He had passed an adventurous youth, during which he had for eight years been held to slavery by a negro tribe on the Gambia river; he had afterwards amassed a considerable fortune, and embarked it in the ventures of the Company; he had thereupon withdrawn himself to Tresco, where he had lived for twenty years: so much any man might know without provocation to his curiosity.
When Lady Tresco brought her four plain daughters to an "At Home" one night, Medhurst, in evening dress, disguised as a waiter, followed them each round the room with obtrusive ices, to satisfy himself just how much of their complexion was real, and how much was patent rouge and Bloom of Ninon.
My woman's pride, my woman's honour those two things are mine to keep. "So she stood casting about for an issue, while the brothers glowered at one another across her. It was evident that if she left them alone they would fight, and fight to the death. She turned to Robert. "'You meant to live on Tresco here at my gates, unknown to me; but you could not. "'I could not, he answered.
"'What island is this? he asked. "'Tresco. "'Tresco! he exclaimed, in a quick, agitated whisper, as though he dreaded yet expected to hear the name. 'We were wrecked, then, on the Golden Ball. "'Wrecked? cried my father; but the man went on pursuing his own thoughts. "'I swam to an islet. "'It would be Norwithel, said my father.
I was wrecked in a calm sea on the Golden Ball I was thrown up on Tresco no one on that ship escaped but myself. No sooner was I safe than the fog lifted "'You will stay? Mrs. Lovyes interrupted. 'No? "'Yes, said he, 'Jarvis Grudge will stay. "And she turned thoughtfully away. But I caught a glimpse of her face as we went out, and it wore the saddest smile a man could see. "Mr.
Something, at any rate, of the glamour of those past days came back to us all, I fancy, as we laughed and dozed and idled and talked beneath the snowy wings of the Aurora, and I cannot say I was in the least surprised when, on roaming through the pleasant garden walks in that unique little island of Tresco, I came once more upon Derrick and Freda, with, if you will believe it, another handful of white heather given to them by that discerning gardener!
Now when Olaf Triggvison lay at Scilly, sheltering from a storm that had driven him out of his intended course, he heard that in the isle of Tresco there was a certain soothsayer who was said to be well skilled in the foretelling of things which had not yet come to pass. Olaf fell a-longing to test the spaeing of this man.
It is related that a hermit living at St. Mary's gave him timely warning of a mutiny among his seamen; Olaf crushed the mutiny, but received a severe wound. He was carried to the monastery at Tresco, and consented to be baptized; after which he became a saint himself, and churches were dedicated to him there is one such at Exeter. Longfellow has told us of
I am John Lovyes, and was, it is true, captured with my brother in Africa, but I escaped six years before he did, and traded no more in those parts. We fled together from the negroes, but we were pursued. My brother was pierced by an arrow, and I left him, believing him to be dead." I had, indeed, heard something of a brother, though I little expected to find him in Tresco too.
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