Come now." This was a sad blow to me, to be parted from my master and friend in this hour of danger.

Yet it seemed better for him to get to the gentlemen's quarters; for in the hole where he was he could scarce have lived.

So I was fain to submit.

Captain Desmond promised me that once a day I might come to enquire; and further, that if his man--a Spanish clown, who shook in his shoes whenever he heard a gun--should by any chance be killed, I might take his place.
Whereupon, I grieve to say, I prayed devoutly that night that Heaven would speedily relieve the poor fellow of his fears for good.
Next day I was too miserable toiling alone at the rents in the hold to see or care much what passed.

But I know that, towards evening, when I looked out, the low cliffs of France were in sight, and that the English sail were a league in our rear, standing out, as it seemed to me, for the white walls of their own land..