Word: yachting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1880
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bertha is eyes for me,' replied Carlin, with a laugh that sounded somewhat forced. 'And she knows all about a yacht, though you might not believe...
...hours later I had strolled down to the pier, and was watching the little yachts and row-boats gayly starting out with their loads of fishing and picnic parties, when father and daughter came walking down from the hotel together. Mr. Carlin passed me with the barest recognition, but Bertha withdrew her arm from his and stopped short to speak with me. He made no remark but addressed himself to the old skipper of the Rosa, a dainty little yacht, some twenty-four feet or so from stem to stern, and asked him if his boat were yet engaged...
...Captain Scuffles could only consent. Mr. Carlin, with a surprising degree of agility considering his blindness, climbed down into the yacht, and I helped Bertha after; for the father's rudeness was surely no fault of the daughter. So, the skipper shoving the prow out and I loosing the hawsers, the Rosa cleared the pier, Mr. Carlin hoisting sail with marvellous expertness...
...from the northeast. Bertha looked back several times and waved her handkerchief at me. I took off my hat and swung it in response; but I saw her face only through my tears. You see that dream had made me weak and nervous. Farther and farther away sped the yacht, till the sail was a dim white patch on the horizon...
...remember much about what followed, only I dimly recollect Amy's fainting, and then having seen a yacht come alongside, and the Yale man, about three times his natural size, helping Amy into it, and muttering something about the bad effects of drinking too early in the day, as he glanced...