This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...nothing but the unfathomable deep. To the left was the distant town of Deal; but, on changing my uncomfortable position, to ascertain how far I had progressed from the land, on this most unhappy voyage, to my indescribable dread I found the tide had drifted us to nearly opposite the identical mansion I had, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...nothing but the unfathomable deep. To the left was the distant town of Deal; but, on changing my uncomfortable position, to ascertain how far I had progressed from the land, on this most unhappy voyage, to my indescribable dread I found the tide had drifted us to nearly opposite the identical mansion I had, but some half-hour since, quitted. Judge what my sensations must have been, when, holding tight by the mane and tail of the accursed brute, to enable me to vere my body round, the better to ascertain whether any one occupied the well-known balcony, I beheld that fiend in human shape, Fred. Alwick, gesticulating and waving his handkerchief in all directions, like a split mainsail in a gale of wind, with the not-to-be mistaken purpose of summoning, from far and near, all and every human being he could collect, to witness the unexpected kindness, on my part, in so readily and with such extreme delicacy catering for the amusement of the party on shore, rather than keep them in suspense, though it were but till the following day. Oh, how I cursed his obtuse officiousness at that moment! But what signified my feelings as regarded him? in all probability we should never meet again. I was evidently bound for New York, the West or East Indies, China, or the Loo-Choo Islands--who could tell? no one on earth or sea, save the infernal horse, and the foul fiend that possessed him. Yet of one thing I was morally certain, and that was, that wherever the demon I bestrode cared to wander, there I most unquestionably must go likewise; and so we progressed, till, seriously fearing the animal was in right earnest resolved on quitting England for ever, I again looked back, in hopes of discerning some symptom of aid in progress, to avert my destruction; and, in so...
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