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Updated: June 15, 2025
Elsmere, had dropped a little curtsey learnt at a German school, and full of grace wandered off a little way along the water-side. Meynell, struggling with depression, tried to make conversation on anything and everything that was not Upcote Minor, its parish, or its church. Mrs.
At starting they were merely jovial; but they stopped at nearly all the public-houses by the water-side, and, by visible gradations, became jolly uproarious sang songs caught crabs.
So therewith he went his way from the water-side, and through the streets unto his father's house; but when he was but a little way thence, and the door was before him, him- seemed for a moment of time that he beheld those three coming out down the steps of stone and into the street; to wit the dwarf, the maiden, and the stately lady: but when he stood still to abide their coming, and looked toward them, lo! there was nothing before him save the goodly house of Bartholomew Golden, and three children and a cur dog playing about the steps thereof, and about him were four or five passers-by going about their business.
Then somebody shouted the unexpected tidings that they were the castaways of Bering's crew. Bugles rang; the fort drum rumbled a muster; the chapel bells pealed forth; and the whole population of the fort rushed to the water-side shouting, gesticulating, laughing, crying and welcomed with wild embraces the returning castaways.
It has made short work of stronger men than that vicious stripling." Berenike gave the soldier her hand, thanked him hurriedly, and begged him, as he could pass unharmed through the city, to hasten to her husband's counting-house by the water-side, to warn him and carry him her last greetings. With tears in his eyes Martialis did as she desired.
Few would have supposed that the white and the blue coats of miller and soldier covered the forms of father and son. Before the last troop of dragoons rode off they were welcomed in a body by Miller Loveday, who still stood in his outer garden, this being a plot lying below the mill-tail, and stretching to the water-side.
Having set all things in order against the next flood, I went on shore with Captain Erwin at Greenwich, and into the parke, and there: we could hear the guns from the fleete most plainly. We walked to the water-side, and there seeing the King and Duke come down in their barge to Greenwich-house, I to them, and did give them an account what I was doing.
"Thar ain't quite so much walkin' araound ter do," he added significantly. I made my way down to the water-side, where Jake Landrasse sat alone on the gunwale of a Kentucky boat, smoking a clay pipe as he fished.
He and Issa had shared it between them as a precious secret, and he had used it this very morning as a short cut to the water-side. Tennant, their elder brother, was not aware of its existence, but then Tennant was a prig, and not to be trusted in truly momentous affairs. There was his father's wrath. Constans turned sick at the thought of arousing it. No; he could not tell him.
Arthur was watering the tall white lilies by the water-side and all was still with a hallowed silence they dared not break. Suddenly a wild blast swept where they stood. All was desolate and bare, and Clarence was gone. In a moment the bare rocks where she had stood were overwhelmed, and she was drifting far out to sea alone!
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