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Updated: June 17, 2025
It was a warm day, and the shore was crowded. Most of the people had finished bathing, and were spread about the sands drying their back hair and reading their papers. One adventurous bather, however, remained in the water. I had anxiously watched him swim round the pier-head and back, ready longing to see him cast his hands above his head and hang out other signals of distress.
This raised so many unpleasant recollections of the various types I had encountered that I determined to go no nearer to modern Scarborough than the pier-head upon which I stood.
As Morrel and his son embraced on the pier-head, in the presence and amid the applause of the whole city witnessing this event, a man, with his face half-covered by a black beard, and who, concealed behind the sentry-box, watched the scene with delight, uttered these words in a low tone: "Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds."
"It needn't puzzle ye, then," replied the wife, as she set a chair for her husband at the table, and poured out a cup of tea, "for there's bin two sloops an' a schooner on the rocks off the pier-head for three hours past, an' a' the lads are out at them, Uncle John among the rest. They've made him coxswain o' the new lifeboat since ye last went to sea."
With beating heart and straining eyes, Valdemar Svensen crouched on the pier-head, watching, in mute agony, the burning vessel. He had fulfilled his oath! that strange vow that had so sternly bound him, a vow that was the outcome of his peculiar traditions and pagan creed.
It was quite dark when we got outside into the balcony, although we could see a star or two faintly glimmering overhead; while away to the westward, across the common, the red light at the pier-head marking the entrance to the harbour was visible.
"Mr. Powell was busy drawing his pen through the entries relating to that unlucky second mate and making a note in the margin. "You could sign him on yourself on board," says he without looking up. "But I don't think you'll find easily an officer for such a pier-head jump." "Upon this the fine-looking skipper gave signs of distress. The ship mustn't miss the next morning's tide.
We went ashore; and although, on our arrival at the pier-head, the sentinels and police did not speak to us, or demand our passports, they walked round and viewed us, as a man would observe the points of a horse before he purchased it.
You might have called it a pier-head jump for a gentleman. I saw him come along. Know the West India Docks, eh?" Schomberg did not know the West India Docks. Ricardo looked at him pensively for a while, and then continued, as if such ignorance had to be disregarded. "Our tug was already alongside. Two loafers were carrying his dunnage behind him.
This pier-head was a spot which Christopher enjoyed visiting on such moaning and sighing nights as the present, when the sportive and variegated throng that haunted the pier on autumn days was no longer there, and he seemed alone with weather and the invincible sea. Somebody came towards him along the deserted footway, and rays from the nearest lamp streaked the face of his sister Faith.
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