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At thisbeen jostled out of the front row, , the better to spring Now he sprang His full weight took Sam squarely in the spine There was an instant in which that young , as it were, between sea and sky; then he shot down over the rail to join the man in the blue jersey, who had just discovered that his hat was not on straight and had paused to adjust it once er

In the brief interval of ti with Eustace about the latter's bruised soul, so above Not extraordinary, perhaps, but curious These rip the reader, should, I ao always forward It shouldlike the cha I hate, it is a novel which gets you interested in the hero in chapter one and then cuts back in chapter two to tell you all about his grandfather Nevertheless, at this point we o back a space Wedeposited her Pekinese dog in her state-rooain on deck This happened just about the ti his narrative

By now the bustle which precedes the departure of an ocean liner was at its height Hoarse voices were crying, "All for the shore!" The gangas thronged with friends of passengers returning to land The crowd on the pier waved flags and handkerchiefs and shouted unintelligibly Me-plank ready to draw it in as soon as the last seer-off had crossed it

The girl went to the rail and gazed earnestly at the shore There was an anxious expression on her face She had the air of one aiting for someone to appear Her dee "He colanced at her wrist-watch, then scanned the dock once -plank irl uttered a little cry of disan to wave her arm to attract the attention of an elderly man with a red face made redder by exertion, who had just forced his way to the edge of the dock and was peering up at the passenger-lined rail