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Updated: June 6, 2025
Then there was the appalling unnatural darkness, through which the ship was rushing at a speed which I am certain she had never before attained. The only mitigating circumstance was that the wind-lashed sea emitted a certain ghostly radiance that, despite the deluge of spindrift and scud- water with which the air was saturated, enabled one dimly to discern objects as far forward as the foremast.
When next they looked, there was nothing but the sky with threatening clouds and the wind-lashed sea. No one spoke as they went up the pathway of a little house where the pretty lady lived. The door was opened, they entered, and then the pretty lady knelt suddenly beside Jan and kissed his head. "God bless you, Prince Jan!" she whispered.
As he rose toward the surface his head struck the pole with which the negro was accustomed to push his boat around in the shallow water, and the blow was so stunning that he did no more than instinctively cling to the object which had injured him. It sustained his weight, but, in the wind-lashed waves and darkness, he and his support were unseen.
Instead, she slipped out and hurried down the stormy street to old Auguste's stable. Five minutes later she was galloping down the black, wind-lashed river trail, on her way to town, to bring Elinor Blair to her lover's deathbed. I hold that no woman ever did anything more unselfish than this deed of Tannis!
A country of lifeless hills that had the appearance of an endless succession of huge black cinder heaps from prehistoric fires. The wind had increased steadily all day, and now we saw ahead of us a long rolling stretch of wind-lashed river that discouraged us somewhat. A gray mist rolled with the wind, and dull clouds scudded over.
Swiftly came a change like the sudden smoothing out of the rushing waves of a hill-locked, wind-lashed lake. The face was again Ruth's face and Ruth's alone; the eyes were Ruth's eyes supplicating, adjuring. "Ruth!" Ventnor cried. "While you can hear am I not right?" She nodded vigorously, sternly; she was lost, hidden once more. "You see." He turned to us grimly.
It was a silent drive; each occupied with individual thoughts running in separate channels; she glad that her eyes were looking their last on the wind-lashed prairies blackened by the scourge; he casting about in his mind for some bait with which to entice her to return. "You will come back to the child?" he faltered. But she made no answer.
On their right, an ice-stiffened marsh reached to the great City wall, while a remnant of the primeval beech forest lay along their left, leafless, wind-lashed and groaning. Ahead, behind its walls and above its gardens of clustering fruit-trees, rose the towers and gilded spires of the King's Palace.
When they did finally struggle to sense again, it was with the sound of the rushing of mighty waters in their ears. The Orion was afloat! She was being tossed upon the bosom of a wind-lashed ocean, and a hurricane, the like of which the two boys had never experienced before, was at its height. Captain Sproul rose to his feet, panting for breath, but with his senses all alert.
On swayed the carriage, the water splashing against the wheels. Carried by the two labourers who walked along a high bank beside the road, a couple of lanterns threw their wavering light on the flooded highway, the dripping, wind-lashed trees, the steaming horses.
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