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I cried, turning to him; "you there?" "Iss, Mass' George. When we go home again? Pomp done like dis place 'tall." "No, nor nobody else, boy," said Morgan, sadly. "Hark! Hear anything?" He seized his gun as he spoke, but it was only a hissing scream made by one of the water-soaked timbers as the steam was forced out. "Nobody come. Injum all gone away." "How do you know?" I cried, eagerly.
I cannot imagine anything more cruelly barbarous than to bring a severely wounded man back four or five miles to the hospital in a crowded, jolting army wagon, let him lie from two to four hours with hardly any protection from the blazing sunshine in the daytime or the drenching dew at night, rack him with agony on the operating-table, and then carry him away, weak and helpless, put him on the water-soaked ground, without shelter, blanket, pillow, food, or drink, and leave him there to suffer alone all night.
"Amen to that," replied Maurice, his agitation visible even to the officer. They arrived at the gate in silence. The cuirassier raised the bar, touched his helmet, and said, with something like an amused twinkle in his eyes: "Would Monsieur like to borrow my helmet for a space?" Maurice put up a hand to his water-soaked hair, and gave an ejaculation of dismay.
"I am no traitor." "Nay, friend," said the other in a milder tone. "I thought it not of thee, or I had not brought thee thither." He shoved the nose of the boat into the shore, and caught at a stake, rising, water-soaked and rotten, from below the bank.
"It was big and fine you saved a score of lives, and for them you gave your tug and part of your crew. I cannot reward such men as you I can pay just debts, though. Your men shall not suffer; neither shall the families of those who were lost." Then he paused a minute and reached behind the door jamb, bringing out a water-soaked bit of plank. "One of our best men picked this from the water.
Several trees within her observation went down, some torn up by the roots; Arethusa could have wept miserably to see them go, these woodland friends of hers. "Jane Eyre" was blown from her unheeding grasp and against a crooked root of the oak tree. Its water-soaked pages flapped madly back and forth; the equally water-soaked rug had been flung against a near-by bush, wide spread like a sail.
While bailing the water from the Edith we noticed a peculiar odour, and thought for a while that it might be the body of the man who was drowned at the ferry, but later we found it came from a green cottonwood log that had become water-soaked, and was embedded in the sand, close to our landing.
Even after he had escaped Cape Finisterre, the ordeal was not over; for the ship was in a sinking condition, and fire broke out on board. Eventually the engines were repaired, the fire extinguished, and Lisbon was reached on the 13th, where Borrow landed with his water-soaked luggage, and found on examination that the greater part of his clothes had been ruined.
Again and again she filled her basket and hauled it up to the bungalow, and three times she carried up a large, water-soaked log balanced on her shoulder. But when the supply at last appeared ample, she returned to the beach on another quest.
Reaching into the pocket of his water-soaked shirt he withdrew several long, steel-jacketed bullets and, holding them in the palm of his hand, grinned broadly. Then, one by one, he placed them in his mouth, drew a long breath, and dived. The water at this point was about four feet in depth and the man swam rapidly, close to the bottom.