In this state it would have been all over with him, as, being stunned by the fall, it was some moments before he could recover himself, if another party had not unexpectedly come to his rescue. She saw the moonlit waters, the black shadow of the proa, the moon-fire that ran down the far edge of the bellying sail, the silent natives: no sound except the slapping of the outrigger and the low sibilant murmur of water falling away from the sides—and the beating of her heart. If she kept on, would she make it out of the door? Then what? He could come after her before she could reach the secret passage. “John,” she declared, “I must eat or die. Not one of them but bore the marks of having been engaged in a recent and severe conflict. " "Law! Miss," observed the maid, "there's nothing mischievous in the person's appearance, I'm sure. \" He rose and departed. "What a very remarkable thing it is," he observed, applying to his snuff-box, "that Thames Darrell, whom we all supposed dead,"—Kneebone in his heart sincerely wished he had been so,—"should turn out to be alive after all. "You'll not be offended, I hope," returned Wood, drily, "if I say that your voice, your manner, and, above all, your very extraordinary way of laughing, put me strangely in mind of one of the 'droll dogs,' (as you term them,) who helped to perpetrate the outrage I've just described. She guessed that he probably slept all of three hours a night at most. His demeanour then was sober enough to lend colour to that belief.
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