We had no choice but to ride before it with stripped poles, and it drove us back the way we had gone.

Moreover--as the devil would have it!--the Santiago sprang her mainmast; and so I was glad to put into a cove on the west of the island a couple of miles away, and we've walked across to stretch our legs, and to give you good-day.

But who are these ?" And he designated the man and the woman.
Cahusac shrugged his shoulders, and tossed his long arms to heaven.
"Voila!" said he, pregnantly, to the firmament.
Levasseur gnawed his lip, and changed colour.

But he controlled himself to answer civilly: "As you see, two prisoners." "Ah! Washed ashore in last night's gale, eh ?" "Not so." Levasseur contained himself with difficulty before that irony.
"They were in the Dutch brig." "I don't remember that you mentioned them before." "I did not.

They are prisoners of my own--a personal matter.