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After having had about three hours’ work, the men begun, pretty generally, to make towards their respective boats for their jackets and stockings, when, to their astonishment, instead of three, they found only two boats, the third being adrift with the ‘Smeaton.’ Not a word was uttered by any one, but all appeared to be silently calculating their numbers, and looking to each other with evident marks of perplexity depicted on their countenances.
His family were forced to admit the melancholy truth and strong sense of all he had uttered, and, although the resolution to which he had come was one of bitterness and sorrow to them all, yet from a principle of affection and duty towards him, they felt that any opposition on their part would have been unjustifiable and wrong.
He was too far off to distinguish the words; but that there were words uttered, and probably as strange as the music itself, if music he could call it, he was very certain. Now the strains rose to a high pitch, now they swelled, now decreased into a low moan scarcely audible. "Some poor mad creature," said the midshipman to himself.
They were on board when the Henrietta made ready to weigh anchor. When Passepartout heard what this last voyage was going to cost, he uttered a prolonged "Oh!" which extended throughout his vocal gamut. As for Fix, he said to himself that the Bank of England would certainly not come out of this affair well indemnified. When they reached England, even if Mr.
He sprinkled them all with the decoction in the caldron, and they were all brought to life again, and to each person came an echo which had been his voice; and the first words they all uttered were: "Accursed witch, merciless Berberisca!"
"I say, Master Fred?" whispered Samson, as a pause was made. "Yes." "You said something just now about the Silcombe bull." "Well?" "I wish he was here." "Why?" "So as to go first and make a way. I'm getting scratched all to bits." "I think we are right. Come along." "Come along it is, sir; but I'm getting so thirsty." They went on for a few minutes more, and then Samson uttered an exclamation.
Thus did they distort and misinterpret the words he had uttered, the instructions he had given and the parables by which he had illustrated his instructions, giving them the semblance of crimes.
Wagner started with a cold and fearful shudder as if at some appalling announcement; but he uttered not a word of reply for his master beckoned him imperiously away from the humble cottage. Our tale commences in the middle of the month of November, 1520, and at the hour of midnight.
By the time that the new tent was up, and the cots arranged those who were still unconscious were carried in there. Then Greg and Tom were helped into the drier quarters. It was Dick who longest resisted the efforts to bring him to consciousness. At last, however, he opened his eyes. "It was a mercy that none of you were killed," uttered Dr. Bentley devoutly.
I will not swear, reader, that there was not something of repressed sarcasm both in the tone in which I uttered this sentence, and in the feeling that accompanied it. I had silently feared St. John till now, because I had not understood him. He had held me in awe, because he had held me in doubt.
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