Simply inexhaustible, my boy." While Lingard spoke Willems looked up quickly, but soon his head fell on his breast in the discouraging certitude that the knowledge he and Hudig had wished for so much had come to him too late.

He sat in a listless attitude.
"You will help Almayer in his trading if you have a heart for it," continued Lingard, "just to kill time till I come back for you.

Only six weeks or so." Over their heads the damp sails fluttered noisily in the first faint puff of the breeze; then, as the airs freshened, the brig tended to the wind, and the silenced canvas lay quietly aback.

The mate spoke with low distinctness from the shadows of the quarter-deck.
"There's the breeze.

Which way do you want to cast her, Captain Lingard ?" Lingard's eyes, that had been fixed aloft, glanced down at the dejected figure of the man sitting on the skylight.