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JUPITER LIGHTS CONSTANCE FENIBIORE -, 1889, - JUPITER LIGHTS. ITS extraordilary navigation, certainly, said Miss Bruce. . Oh, mem, if you please, isnt it better than tlie hother answered BIeaclos, respectfully. BIeadows was Miss Bruces maid one could have told that she uTas English even if one had not heard her speak from her fresh, rosy complexion, her smooth hair put plainly and prinly back from her forehead, her stiff-backed figure with its elborvs out, sncl ller large, thick-soled boots. I dont mind being umped-up on the bank, miss, if you please, she went on in her sweet voice, clropping her hs and adding them, too in unexpected places. Its those great waves we ad last week, em, if you please, that seemed so horful. I am sorry you will have to sea them again so soon, Miss Bruce answered, kindly. For Meadows was to return to England immediately she was accompanying the mericnn lady for the journey only. Miss Brnce was not rich in her own land she did not intencl to give herself the luxury of a ladys-maid-an --- - induGence - more unusual. in the great Republic at least the northern half of it than fine clothes, finer houses, or the finest diamons. The little steamboat which carried these traycllers was awround in a green plain, a grassy, reedy 4 prairie, 1v111ch extended unbroken as far as the eye could reach on all sicles save one here there uTas, t some distance, zt bank or shore of dark land, dark in 9, ylpari8on, yit, li tfie green. Beyond this shore- ilhd onq qAifdsily -, see over it-stretched the sm, the, el, fieg, as Xis Brucc called it, and not all, Ii, .m, . this remark of hers wllich had drawn out the protest of poor Meadows. Bliss Bruce had crossed from England to NewYorli she had then journeyed southvard, also by. sea, to Savalnah, and from that leafy town, as fair I., . t3, tnic, ss l as is its name, she llad continued her voyage in this little boat, the Altctnzccla, by 1711ztt was called the Inland Route, a queer, amusing passage, winding in and out among the sounds and bays, the lagoons and marsh channels of tle coast, the ocean almost always in sight on the left side, visible over the low islands which constantly sncceeded each other, and wllich formed the barrier that kept out the real sea, that ravaging, ramping, rolling, disturbing surface npon xvhose terrific inequalities the Inland Route relied for its ovn patronage. Tllerc were no inequalities here, certninly, uilless one counted as such the sensation w11icIi 3Ieadows had described as beig ampecl up. The channel was very narrow, ancl as it wound wit11 apparent aimlessness hither ancl tllither in the salt-marsh, it made every now and then such a short turn, doubling upon itself, that tlle steamer, small as she was, could only pass it by rnhning JUPITER LIGHTS. 3 ashore, and then allowing her bows to be hauled round ignominiously by the crew in a row-boat while thus ashore, one side half out of water, her passengers, sitting on that side, had the sensation which the English girl had pictured. At present the Altalnctha liad not run herself agrond purposely, but by accident the crew did not descend to the row-boat this tirne, but, coming up on deck, armed with long poles, vhose ends they inserted in the near bank with an air of being accustomed to it, they shoved the little craft into deep vate er with a series of pushes which kept time to their chorls of 1 clont see llow we are to get onhere at all at night, said Miss Bruce. But before night the marsh ended as suddenly as it had begun, and the AZta, ma7ia was gliding onvard again between banlcs equally low and near, but made of solicl earth, not reeds. The sun sank in the west, the gorgeous colors of the American sunset flamed in the sky. The returning American welcomed them...
| ISBN-13 | 9781408607923 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1408607921 |
| Weight | 0.99 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.51 x 0.75 x 8.50 In |
| List Price | $30.45 |
| Format | - |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 352 pages |
| Publisher | Ramage Pr |
| Published On | 2007-10-01 |
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