line, "seein' hestarted so arly on the sea he can't tell when he wasn't there himself.""How was that matter, Bill?" asked one of his messmates. "They say youhave kept the captain's reckoning, man and boy, these fifteen years." "That have I, and never a truer heart floated than the man you seeyonder leaning over the rail on the quarterdeck, where he belongs,"answered Bill Marline. "How did you first fall in with him, Bill?--Tell us that," said
liday.The dear lady who delights in "piffle," and to whom "pifflage" is the very breath of life, had also her niche in our affairs. She hailed from Egg Harbor and was an antique guinea hen of uncertain age. When you are thinking of the "white porch of your home," she will tell you she "didn't sleep a wink last night!" that "the eggs on this steamer are not what they ought to be," that the cook doesn't know how to boil them, and that as her
"Jericho" by T.K. Eldridge is a gripping and intense thriller novel that follows the story of a young woman named Jericho Sands. After experiencing a traumatic event in her past, Jericho has been living her life on the run, hiding from her abuser and struggling to make a new life for herself. When her past catches up with her, Jericho must confront her fears and fight for her survival. Eldridge's writing is immersive and powerful, drawing readers into Jericho's world and keeping them
g sent to prison, and that this inconvenient ex- soldier should be caged up somewhere."I am going down to Esher for the week-end. I think I may be able to do something." The rolling forehead and the emphatic chin became more aggressive. "I don't like this delay. Now, can you assure me--?" Beal glanced at the clock. "I'm sorry; I am due at my hospital at half-past two. But, tell me, what do you mean--exactly--by delay?" "Nothing is being done." "It is
ll boat would be overturned by the great waves. Then Grace ran to the boat, and seized an oar, for she could not bear to let the poor men die without trying to save them; and the father could not let his brave, daughter go alone, so he followed, and they rowed off.It was hard work pulling against the strong sea, and several times the small boat was almost sunk. But at last it reached the wreck, and William Darling managed to land upon the rock, and with great care and skill helped the
aking lodgers.''No fear of that. This is evidently some well-to-do person. It's a very common arrangement nowadays, you know; they are called "paying guests." Of course I shouldn't dream of having anyone you didn't thoroughly like the look of.' 'Do you think,' asked Emmeline doubtfully, 'that we should quite do? "Well-connected family"--' 'My dear girl! Surely we have nothing to be ashamed of?' 'Of course not, Clarence. But--and "pleasant society." What about
peared, and then the Shorthorns. The business of dealing in north-country cattle came to be worthless. I bade Falkirk adieu, and turned my attention entirely to the rearing and fattening of cattle at home. I gave up the fascinating business of a lean-cattle jobber, seeing it was done for, and I have never regretted my resolution. The lean-cattle trade was difficult to manage, and in fact was most dangerous. Many a day, when attending Hallow Fair, I have got up by four or five o'clock in the
ea, Sussex by the sea![Sidenote: MIDHURST] If we are to begin our travels in Sussex with the best, then Midhurst is the starting point, for no other spot has so much to offer: a quiet country town, gabled and venerable, unmodernised and unambitious, with a river, a Tudor ruin, a park of deer, heather commons, immense woods, and the Downs only three miles distant. Moreover, Midhurst is also the centre of a very useful little railway system, which, having only a single line in each direction,
line, "seein' hestarted so arly on the sea he can't tell when he wasn't there himself.""How was that matter, Bill?" asked one of his messmates. "They say youhave kept the captain's reckoning, man and boy, these fifteen years." "That have I, and never a truer heart floated than the man you seeyonder leaning over the rail on the quarterdeck, where he belongs,"answered Bill Marline. "How did you first fall in with him, Bill?--Tell us that," said
liday.The dear lady who delights in "piffle," and to whom "pifflage" is the very breath of life, had also her niche in our affairs. She hailed from Egg Harbor and was an antique guinea hen of uncertain age. When you are thinking of the "white porch of your home," she will tell you she "didn't sleep a wink last night!" that "the eggs on this steamer are not what they ought to be," that the cook doesn't know how to boil them, and that as her
"Jericho" by T.K. Eldridge is a gripping and intense thriller novel that follows the story of a young woman named Jericho Sands. After experiencing a traumatic event in her past, Jericho has been living her life on the run, hiding from her abuser and struggling to make a new life for herself. When her past catches up with her, Jericho must confront her fears and fight for her survival. Eldridge's writing is immersive and powerful, drawing readers into Jericho's world and keeping them
g sent to prison, and that this inconvenient ex- soldier should be caged up somewhere."I am going down to Esher for the week-end. I think I may be able to do something." The rolling forehead and the emphatic chin became more aggressive. "I don't like this delay. Now, can you assure me--?" Beal glanced at the clock. "I'm sorry; I am due at my hospital at half-past two. But, tell me, what do you mean--exactly--by delay?" "Nothing is being done." "It is
ll boat would be overturned by the great waves. Then Grace ran to the boat, and seized an oar, for she could not bear to let the poor men die without trying to save them; and the father could not let his brave, daughter go alone, so he followed, and they rowed off.It was hard work pulling against the strong sea, and several times the small boat was almost sunk. But at last it reached the wreck, and William Darling managed to land upon the rock, and with great care and skill helped the
aking lodgers.''No fear of that. This is evidently some well-to-do person. It's a very common arrangement nowadays, you know; they are called "paying guests." Of course I shouldn't dream of having anyone you didn't thoroughly like the look of.' 'Do you think,' asked Emmeline doubtfully, 'that we should quite do? "Well-connected family"--' 'My dear girl! Surely we have nothing to be ashamed of?' 'Of course not, Clarence. But--and "pleasant society." What about
peared, and then the Shorthorns. The business of dealing in north-country cattle came to be worthless. I bade Falkirk adieu, and turned my attention entirely to the rearing and fattening of cattle at home. I gave up the fascinating business of a lean-cattle jobber, seeing it was done for, and I have never regretted my resolution. The lean-cattle trade was difficult to manage, and in fact was most dangerous. Many a day, when attending Hallow Fair, I have got up by four or five o'clock in the
ea, Sussex by the sea![Sidenote: MIDHURST] If we are to begin our travels in Sussex with the best, then Midhurst is the starting point, for no other spot has so much to offer: a quiet country town, gabled and venerable, unmodernised and unambitious, with a river, a Tudor ruin, a park of deer, heather commons, immense woods, and the Downs only three miles distant. Moreover, Midhurst is also the centre of a very useful little railway system, which, having only a single line in each direction,