The Golden Hope (1887)

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114

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177 g

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. A STEAMER IS SIGHTED. Fortescue passed a broken night. He could hardly close his eyes for deep, anxious and bewildering thoughts. All the mystery and awe of his own vision and its astonishing accomplishment were, now that the issue was reached, now that Agatha was safe, overshadowed by the wonder of the extraordinary psychological conundrum that the shipwreck of his beloved had confronted him with. Would it, as he had more than once thought in the day that had passed, come to his having to build up a fresh fabric of emotion on her new faculty of recollection, win her love this side the veil that had fallen, and teach her heart afresh all those former passions and delights which had found a grave in her memory ? He awoke at half-past seven, and aftergently turning the key in Agatha's door, and listening, he went on deck, where he found Hiram and Stone walking up and down, the watch below coming to the caboose for their breakfast, the watch on duty clearing up the decks, and a strong wind blowing from the southward, yet without much sea. The sky was a dingy blue, and the scud was flying along it like the scatterings of the sooty belchings of a city of factory chimneys behind the windward ocean. The Golden Hope was rushing through it with flattened sheets and single-reefed mainsail; the water poured in a white arch from the weather bow, and the heel of her as she shredded the surges wonderfully accentuated the idea of swift motion indicated by the whirling passage of the creaming stuff to leeward, whose seething the wind echoed in screams as it tore bucketsfull of it up and drove the blobs like chips of glistening white coral into the air. It was a fine, rushing picture to come upon from a small cabin; and it was the heartier as a vitalising influence becaus...

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