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The stout raw-hide line twanged like a harp-string as the terrified Arima relaxed his convulsive grip on it and was hauled back inboard to safety by his master, and the yacht's forward progress was checked with an abruptness that threatened to drag the bitts out of her as the strain of the line, with the plunging, struggling monster at the end of it, was suddenly thrown upon them, while the shock sent every individual, fore and aft, sprawling upon the deck, to the uproarious and most undignified amusement of the young Inca, and the mortal terror of his faithful subjects.
All I did was to pull him out by the seat of the trousers. The fat old thing had gone out in the dark to the end of the yacht's boat- boom, and was trying to worry in the dinghy with his toe, when plump he dropped into a six-knot ebb tide. Of course, if I hadn't happened along in a launch, he might have drowned, but, as for anything heroic on my part why, the very notion is preposterous.
She could have laughed at the spectacle of a champion prize-fighter out of employ, hulking idle, because he was dog to a paytron; but her contempt of him declined passing in small change. 'So you're off. What am I to tell my lord when he comes? Kit growled. 'His yacht's fetching for a Welsh seaport. She counted it a piece of information gained, and jumped to her seat, bidding the driver start.
I leaped through the open door and saw a very gold-laced man who was talking very fast to the head of the firm. "Here's just the man you want," said the latter. "He's a first-rate young chap who will go anywhere and do anything. His skipper of the Chandernagore swears by him. I can send for him, if you like." "No time for that," interrupted the yacht's captain.
Two hours later Ann stood on the cliff and watched the Sphinx steam slowly out to sea, and with the last gleam of the yacht's white stern it seemed to her as though some inexplicable, still lingering menace were removed. "Cafe noir? Bien, m'sieu."
Cub "tipped" Hal and Bud as to the purpose communicated to him by the Canadian officer, and the three conducted "Bud's prisoner" into the cabin. But the latter proved to be about as uncommunicative as he had been when the older members of the yacht's company tried to get something out of him.
He had only a small copper coin, which always returned to him when he spent it, and received no other payment for his services. In the arms of the town of Præstø is a man in a priest's dress, supposed to be in his memory." "Were there any Underjordiske in the cliff at the yacht's bow?" asked Hardy.
He asked her whether she had had a good season at Joinville. He would have liked to go in the hunting time, but could not. He had gone to the Mediterranean, then he had hunted at Semanville. "Oh, Monsieur Le Menil," said Miss Bell, "you have wandered on the blue sea. Have you seen sirens?" No, he had not seen sirens, but for three days a dolphin had swum in the yacht's wake.
Croesus Jr., fond of display, bought a little steam yacht one hundred tons. After two costly months of yachting, Croesus Jr., waxing thrifty and bewailing expense, laid up the yacht in a shipyard on the Harlem River. The yacht's name was Zulu Queen. The Zulu Queen measured one hundred and ten feet over all, and since she was of unusual beam, her draught was light.
In the midst of all this merriment, we were rowed ashore to keep our engagement with the American Minister; and, on reaching the land, about half a mile off, we could hear the whole yacht's company joining in the chorus, and Jerome's fiddle screaming the accompaniment, of "True blue for ever."
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