I dined with a
friend and went to the ‘Unusual. She became angry with herself. ‘Seems quiet enough,’ observed the junior officer, his gaze raking the
shuttered windows of the building’s grey stone frontage. “Leave them!” He yelled. These daughters! He gnawed his pen and
reflected, tore the sheet up, and began again. Her family had hosted a feast in his honor for which
they had taken weeks to prepare: with braised capons and
lobster sausages and all sorts of delicious spiced stews her
mother had made from secret recipes. The
third time she escaped she reached the inconsequent barricade of the overturned
table. ‘No. I
borrowed forty pounds from Mr. He then arose, and, taking a few turns in the chamber, stopped suddenly before
her. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer,
driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows
from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some
deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope
of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to
horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when
I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this
drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. Shortly afterwards, he re-appeared with the information that the captive was safe
below; and giving the necessary directions to his crew, before many minutes had
elapsed, the Zeeslang spread her canvass to the first breeze of morning.
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