Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 415
er, in amoment, right to the wind again. I have said this wasthe worst thing possible for me; for helpless as shelooked in this situation, with the canvas cracking likecannon, and the blocks trundling and banging on thedeck, she stiU continued to run away from me, not only 372 A Book of Sea Stories… … turning her, the Hispaniola revolved slowly round hercentre, and at last presented me her stern, with thecabin window still gaping open, and the lamp over thetable still burning on into the day. The mainsail hungdrooped hke a banner. She was stock-still, but for thecurrent. For the last little…
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