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Chapter Nineteen.
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The Open Boat on the Pacific—Gaff And Billy in Dreadful Circumstances—A Message from the Sea, and a Madman’s Death.
While these events are taking place in the busy seaport3 of Wreckumoft, let us return to the little boat which we left floating, a solitary4 speck5, upon the breast of the great Pacific Ocean.
As long as the whale-ship continued visible, the three occupants of the boat sat immovable, gazing intently upon her in deep silence, as if each felt that when she disappeared his last hold upon earth was gone.
Billy was the first to break silence.
“She’s gone, father,” he whispered.
Both men started, and looked round at the boy.
“Ay, she’s gone,” observed Gaff with a sigh; “and now we’ll have to pull for it, night an’ day, as we are able.”
He began slowly to get out one of the oars7 as he spoke8.
“It would have been better if they had cut our throats,” growled10 Captain Graddy with a fierce oath.
“You’d have been worse off just now if they had, captain,” said Gaff, shaking off his depression of spirits by a strong effort of will. “Come, Cap’n Graddy, you an’ I are in the same fix; let’s be friends, and do our best to face the worst, like men.”
“It makes little matter how we face it,” said the captain, “it’ll come to the same thing in the long run, if we don’t manage to make it a short run by taking strong measures. (He touched the hilt of a knife which he wore at all times in his belt.) However, we may as well pull as not.”
He rose and sulkily took an oar6, while Gaff took another.
“Now, captain,” said Gaff, “you know better than me how far we be fro’ land, an’ which is the way to pull.”
“I should think we’re five hundred miles from the nearest land,” said Graddy, “in a nor’-east direction, an’ there’s no islands that I know of between us an’ South America, so we may just pull about for exercise till the grub’s done, an’ then pull till we’re dead.”
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vt.担忧,忧虑;惧怕,不敢;n.担忧,畏惧 | |
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remonstrance
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深思,细想,仔细考虑( contemplate的现在分词 ); 注视,凝视; 考虑接受(发生某事的可能性); 深思熟虑,沉思,苦思冥想 | |
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