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Updated: June 26, 2025
"I used to be a railroad man myself chief wrecker on the Grand Trunk and I guess we won't have any trouble understanding each other." Again the six long lines of men were creeping from the brightly lighted wharf across the shadowy tracks and around the end of the elevator.
All the dejected young men made for it at once, some reaching it just as they were about to sink for the last time, but all getting a grip on it somehow, and staying there in company with other people's babies whom they didn't know, and celebrities whom they knew to death, until, one by one, they either stranded upon a motherly dowager by the Fire-place Shoals, or were rescued from the Sofa Reef by some gallant wrecker of a strong-minded young lady, with a view to taking salvage out of them in the German.
Fisher after fisher, I wrote, and my pen tripped; for it should rather stand wrecker after wrecker. There was no emotion, no animation, it scarce seemed any interest; not a hand was raised; but all callously awaited the harvest of the sea, and their children stood by their side and waited also.
He turned at least to the war-ships, where it seems he was rebuffed; thence he fled into the arms of the wrecker gang, where he was unhappily more successful.
The butler, for instance, a pleasant-faced colored man, had evidently come straight from the docks, for he passed the food much as a stoker passes coal to a boiler, while the sound of a crashing platter in the butler's pantry gave evidence that the second girl was a house wrecker. "See here, Ma!" Gray threw down his napkin. "You have a beautiful home, and you want it to be perfect, don't you?"
It's plain enough they have been within sight in a canoe, and reported to him what they saw. The scoundrel has, no doubt, played the part of wrecker for years and taken possession of every unfortunate vessel that has come ashore, plundered and burnt it." "Humph!" growled Bostock. "What do you say?" "On'y grunted, sir. That's it. I've heard tell of chaps like him here and there in the South Seas.
Difficulties of this kind he had already handled in a lighter vein once or twice in fiction as for instance in "The Story of a Lie," "The Misadventures of John Nicholson," and "The Wrecker" before he grappled with them in the acute and tragic phase in which they occur in the present story.
"In the way of breeches in particular; for I am inclined to think, Sir George, you are master of more than are to be found in their whole nation. Well, gentlemen, one must certainly travel who wishes to see the world; but for this sheer down here upon the coast of Africa, neither of us might have ever known how an Arab lives, and what a nimble wrecker he makes.
Across from him Hamilton Burton stood, younger, slenderer and more pliant of pose; his eyes meeting those of his protagonist, level and unwavering. "Grant that all your self-adulation is warrantable. Now that you have attained this place in the councils of the few, do you mean to become only a wrecker and a spoiler? Do you recognize no rules of war? Do you adhere to no principles of loyalty?
And at that thought she grew white, and she grew hot, and she wondered why she had been born to be the lady of the feathers, and the wrecker, not of men's lives she never thought of men tenderly in the mass but of this one life, of this one man, whom she loved in a strange, wild, good-woman way. "C-r-r-r!" she said, her tongue flickering against her teeth.
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