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Updated: August 24, 2024
They cheered with delight as London Bridge was shot and the boats went flying down the Pool, past Billingsgate and the oystermen, the White Tower and the Traitors' Gate, past the shipping, where brown, foreign-looking faces stared at them above sea-battered bulwarks. The sun was bright and the wind was keen; the air sparkled, and all the world was full of life.
Arnold Bentham, his own death accepted, and Captain Nicholl, well nigh accepting death, lay rolling like loose-bodied dead men in the boat's bottom, and I was steering when I saw it. The boat, foaming and surging with the swiftness of wind in its sail, was uplifted on a crest, when, close before me, I saw the sea-battered islet of rock. It was not half a mile off.
But when some bare hundred ship-lengths separated us, the other navy halted, and one of the galleys, drawing ahead, flew green branches from her masts, seeking for a parley. The course was unusual, but we, in our sea-battered state, were no navy to invite a fight unnecessarily.
Walks of hardened earth, to which green mould clung in patches, wound through the grounds and threaded the three little groves of oak, chestnut, and locust, in the centres of which, set in circular lawns, were the three axes of interest the stone-edged fish-pond, the spouting fountain, and the ancient ship's figurehead a wind-worn, sea-battered mermaid cuddling a tiny, finny sea-child between breast and lips.
Of course you've been here before; and you know all this; don't you?" "Yes," he said quietly, "my brother and I came here as boys." "Have you not been here since?" "Once." He turned and looked down at the sea-battered wharf jutting into the Bay of Shoals. "Once, since I was a boy," he repeated; "but I came alone. The transports landed at that wharf after the Spanish war.
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