Miss Or Mrs.? and Other Stories in OutlineR. Bentley, 1873 - 325 Seiten |
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Amelia answered asked aunt baby began Berkeley Square brig Bulpit Brothers calm candle Captain Gillop church churchyard cradle cried daughter dead calm deck Dicas doctor Doctor Johnson door Drabble drawing-room eyes face father gentlemen hand happened head hear heard hour husband instantly Jolly Lady Winwood larboard Launce Launce's Launcelot Linzie Levant light London looked main cabin marriage married matter mind minutes Miss Graybrooke Miss Lavinia morning Muswell Hill Natalie Natalie's never night Number opened papa pilot Pizzituti proceeded Purling rector's wife Richard Turlington round sailor sails SCENE schooner servant ship side silence Simon Heavysides Sims Sir Joseph Graybrooke Sir Joseph's sister sleep slow-match Smallchild speak splash steward stewardess stopped story telegram tell Thomas Wildfang tion told took Turling turned vessel wait whispered wife WILKIE COLLINS window words yacht young
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Seite 234 - There was plenty of bloodshed between the new government and the old ; but the new had got the best of it, for the most part, under one General Bolivar — a famous man in his time, though he seems to have dropped out of people's memories now. Englishmen and Irishmen with a turn for fighting, and nothing particular to do at home, joined the General as volunteers; and some of our merchants here found it a good venture to send supplies across the ocean to the popular side. There was risk enough, of...
Seite 250 - I gave in and lay quiet, and got my breath again, my eyes glaring and straining at the candle all the time. While I was staring at it, the notion struck me of trying to blow out the flame by pumping a long breath at it suddenly through my nostrils. It was too high above me, and too far away from me, to be reached in that fashion. I tried, and tried, and tried ; and then I gave in again, and lay quiet again, always with my eyes glaring at the candle, and the candle glaring at me. The splash of the...
Seite 256 - Steady! an inch of tallow candle would burn longer than twenty minutes. An inch of tallow! the notion of a man's body and soul being kept together by an inch of tallow! Wonderful! Why, the greatest king that sits on a throne can't keep a man's body and soul together; and here's an inch of tallow that can do what the king can't!
Seite 241 - It was pitch-dark, and a dead, airless calm. The skipper was on deck, with two of our best men for watch. The rest were below, except the pilot, who coiled himself up, more like a snake than a man, on the forecastle. It was not my watch till four in the morning. But I didn't like the look of the night, or...
Seite 233 - No fear, though, about the particulars I have undertaken to tell you of; I have got them all shipshape in my recollection; I can see them, at this moment, as clear as noonday in my own mind. But there is a mist over what went before, and, for the matter of that, a mist likewise over much that came after - and it's not very likely to lift at my time of life, is it?
Seite 260 - Spaniards pretty sure of no interruption, so long as they managed their murderous work quietly under cover of night. My life had not been saved from the shore, but from the sea. An American vessel, becalmed in the offing, had made out the brig as the sun rose; and the captain having his time on his hands in consequence of the calm, and seeing a vessel anchored where no vessel had any reason to be, had manned one of his boats and sent his mate with it, to look a little closer into the matter, and...
Seite 260 - What he saw, when he and his men found the brig deserted and boarded her, was a gleam of candle-light through the chink in the hatchway. The flame was within about a thread's breadth of the slow-match when he lowered himself into the hold; and if he had not had the sense and coolness to cut the match in two with his knife before he touched the candle, he and his men might have been blown up along with the brig as well as me. The match caught, and turned into sputtering red fire, in the very act of...
Seite 242 - The rest were below, except the pilot, who coiled himself up, more like a snake than a man, on the forecastle. It was not my watch till four in the morning. But I didn't like the look of the night, or the pilot, or the state of things generally, and I shook myself down on deck to get my nap there, and be ready for anything at a moment's notice.
Seite 252 - I gave in once more, and lay quiet, and listened for the splash of the sweeps. Gone! Not a sound could I hear but the blowing of a fish now and then on the surface of the sea, and the creak of the brig's crazy old spars, as she rolled gently from side to side with the little swell there was on the quiet water. An hour and a quarter. The wick grew terribly as the quarter slipped away, and the charred top of it began to thicken and spread out mushroomshape. It would fall off soon. Would it fall off...
Seite 232 - I make bold to believe that the haunting of any man with anything under the sun begins with the frightening of him. At any rate, the haunting of me with a bedroom candlestick and candle began with the frightening of me with a bedroom candlestick and candle — the frightening of me half out of my life; and, for the time being, the frightening of me altogether out of my wits. That is not a very pleasant thing to confess before stating the particulars; but perhaps you will be the readier to believe...