Dutch the Diver; Or, A Man's Mistake

"Captain Studwick," she cried, catching his hand and drawing herself upon her knees to cling to him, "don't send me back--don't send me away. Let me go too. I could not bear to...

"I'll see him now," he said; and he was turning to go to the cabin stairs when the low musical voice of his wife fell upon his ear, and though the darkness was so great that he...

"I've often wished for you as a mate in a dark watch, 'Pollo," said Oakum, hewing off a quid of tobacco, and thrusting it into one cheek. "You would not go to sleep."

Having now no leader, the other men came sulkily on deck, and gave up their arms without a struggle, and all were ordered over the side into the boat, a plentiful supply of beef...

Laure gave his orders, then Oakum took the command, and, the men readily obeying, the anchors were hove up, and, after their long stay, the schooner sails were once more shaken...

There was not much time left them for consideration, for it was evident that full preparations were going on above. Voices were heard talking and orders being given, but the men...

At last, like some deadly monster uncoiling its folds, the Cuban began to move, and his first attempt was to reach a bottle of spirits, from whose gurgling throat he drank with...

"How dare I?" he laughed; "because I love you more than even I loved you the first day I saw you in that dark office in miserable, cold England; I loved you when, in those dear...

"Yes, just for a little while," said Dutch, shaking hands with him, and then holding out his hand to the sister, who half shrank from him with an angry, flushed face; but his fr...

Gutter-alley was certainly a gloomy home, but somehow time glided on as swiftly there as in more favoured spots. A year soon sped. The attentions of the young men had been inces...

Wilson was in raptures, and wanted to form an expedition directly to go in pursuit of the gorgeously-feathered birds that came down to the edge of the forest, and then, uttering...

Twice over he ran right into some one's arms, and once he ran full tilt against an enemy, and sent him rolling over on to the deck. Shouts and oaths rang around him, and over an...

"You sha'n't marry him, and that's an end of it!" cried Keziah fiercely. "I'll go over and see him to-night and talk to him; and if I can't win him round my name isn't Bay. I'll...

"Don't invent bugbears, Pugh," said Mr Parkley, gaily. "We can take care of what we find, for we have plenty of arms, and I doubt very much whether the men would risk their neck...

Hester Pugh's breath caught, as now, with dilating eyes, she watched her husband, who, as calmly as possible, stepped on to the ladder, and began to descend step by step, till h...

Hester uttered a wild shriek, and the handles flew round again as she darted to the air-pump, and as if feeling that she could help her husband, seized the tube.

"Glad to see you, sir," said Mr Parkley, upon whom the letter wrought a complete change. "Good people, Roberts and Moore. Supplied them with a complete diving apparatus. So you'...

"And why not, pray?" Then seeing the agitation and fear in the poor girl's face she continued, "Then I won't--not to him; for it would be like trying to turn a rushing bull;--bu...

"Well, what o' that?" said Rasp coolly, as he held the signal-line delicately in his hand, drawing in and slackening out like a man feeling with a ground line. "He's as right as...

"Over some things, perhaps," said Dutch, gloomily; "but sane enough over this. Mind, I don't say that there is any treasure there, but the old fellow has anchored us right acros...

She glanced across at Hester Pugh, and saw her white lips working as her eyes followed her husband, and then, taking up a book, began to read to her brother.

Blind to everything but his maddening passion, kept back now for so many days, and absorbed by the feeling that he could now wreak his vengeance upon the man who had wrecked his...

"It's only we ugly ones as enjoys these privileges with the fair sect. You wouldn't like to be old and ugly like me, to be talked to as I am."

For a moment his intention was to rush off home, but he restrained himself for the time, and tried to recall the past; but his brain was in a whirl. At last he grew more calm, a...

"What's the good o' you saying will I leave the fire alone, Mr Pug?" said the man addressed, stoking savagely at the grate; "you know as well as I do that if I leave it half hou...

Quite a year elapsed before the subject was broached again from a business point of view. Mr Parkley had been a good deal disheartened by his losses, and shook his head when Dut...