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By that time the Amelia had been towed half a mile or so away from Cape1 Esterel. This change had brought her nearer to the two watchers on the hillside, who would have been plainly visible to the people on her deck, but for the head of the pine which concealed2 their movements. Lieutenant3 Réal, bestriding the rugged4 trunk as high as he could get, had the whole of the English ship's deck open to the range of his pocket-glass which he used between the branches. He said to Peyrol suddenly:
“Her captain has just come on deck.”
Peyrol, sitting at the foot of the tree, made no answer for a long while. A warm drowsiness5 lay over the land and seemed to press down his eyelids6. But inwardly the old rover was intensely awake. Under the mask of his immobility, with half-shut eyes and idly clasped hands, he heard the lieutenant, perched up there near the head of the tree, mutter counting something: “One, two, three,” and then a loud “Parbleu!” after which the lieutenant in his trunk-bestriding attitude began to jerk himself backwards7. Peyrol got up out of his way, but could not restrain himself from asking: “What's the matter now?”
“I will tell you what's the matter,” said the other excitedly. As soon as he got his footing he walked up to old Peyrol and when quite close to him folded his arms across his chest.
“The first thing I did was to count the boats in the water. There was not a single one left on board. And now I just counted them again and found one more there. That ship had a boat out last night. How I missed seeing her pull out from under the land I don't know. I was watching the decks, I suppose, and she seems to have gone straight up to the tow-rope. But I was right. That Englishman had a boat out.”
He seized Peyrol by both shoulders suddenly. “I believe you knew it all the time. You knew it, I tell you.” Peyrol, shaken violently by the shoulders, raised his eyes to look at the angry face within a few inches of his own. In his worn gaze there was no fear or shame, but a troubled perplexity and obvious concern. He remained passive, merely
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ashore
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momentary
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vacancy
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naval
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stationary
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speck
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catching
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seaman
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gentry
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brotherhood
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liking
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defiant
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spoke
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dodging
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起重,提升 | |
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marvel
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confidentially
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gulf
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shipwreck
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fixedly
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growled
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curtly
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austere
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frigate
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patriots
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Mediterranean
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seamen
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consul
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