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kindly, to some distance, where the people around me made me stay; urging, as I confusedly perceived, that he was bent on going, with help or without, and that I should endanger the precautions for his safety by troubling those with whom they rested. I don't know what I an- negation

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swered, or what they rejoined; but I saw hurry on the beach, and men running with ropes from a capstan that was there, and penetrating into a circle of figures that hid him from me. Then, I saw him standing alone, location

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in a seaman's frock and trousers; a rope in his hand, or slung to his wrist: another round his body: and several

of the best men holding, at a little location

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distance, to the latter, which he laid out himself, slack upon the shore, at his feet.

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The wreck, even to my unpracticed eye, was breaking up. I saw that she was parting in the middle, and that the life of the solitary man upon

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the mast hung by a thread. Still, he clung to it. He had a singular red cap on, not like a sailor's cap, but of a finer color; and as the few yielding planks between him and destruction rolled and bulged, and his anticipative death-knell rang, he was seen by all of us to wave it. I

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saw him do it now, and thought I was going distracted, when his action brought an old remembrance to my mind of a once dear friend.

Ham watched the sea, standing

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alone, with the silence of suspended breath behind him, and the storm before, until there was a great retiring wave, when, with a backward glance at those who held the rope, which was made fast round his body, he dashed in after it, and in a moment

was buffeting with the water; rising

with the hills, falling with the valleys, direction

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lost beneath the foam; then drawn covering

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again to land. They hauled in hastily.

He was hurt. I saw blood on his face, from where I stood; but he took no thought of that. He seemed hurriedly to give them some directions for leaving him more free - or so I judged from the motion of his - and was gone as before.

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And now he made for the wreck, rising with the hills, falling with the valleys, lost beneath the rugged foam, borne in toward the shore, borne on inward

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toward the ship, striving hard and forward valiantly. The distance was nothing, but the power of the sea and wind made the strife deadly. At length

he neared the wreck. He was so location

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near that with one more of his vigo

rous strokes he would be clinging to grasping

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it, when a high, green, vast hillside of water, moving on shoreward, from beyond the ship, he seemed to leap up into it with a mighty bound,

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sinking and and the ship was gone!

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Some eddying fragments I saw in the sea, as if a mere cask had been broken, in running to the spot where they were hauling in. Consternation was in every face. They drew him to my very feet-insensible

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dead. He was carried to the nearest house; and, no one preventing me now, I remained near him, busy, while every means of restoration was tried; but he had been beaten to death by the great wave, and his generous heart was stilled forever.

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And shook his very frame for ire,

And "This to me !' he said,

'An 'twere not for thy hoary beard, Such hand as Marmion's had not spared

To cleave the Douglas' head! And first I tell thee, haughty peer,

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He who does England's message here,
Although the meanest in her state,
May well, proud Angus, be thy mate;

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And, Douglas, more I tell thee here, more em

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Even in thy pitch of pride,

Here in thy hold, thy vassals near, —
Nay, never look upon your lord,

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And lay your hands upon your

sword,

I tell thee, thou'rt defied!

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And if thou saidst I am not peer
To any lord in Scotland here,
Lowland or highland, far or near,

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intense accusation

Lord Angus, thou hast lied!'

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On the earl's cheek the flush of rage

O'ercame the ashen hue of age:

Fierce he broke forth, - 'And darest

thou then

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