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Among my headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the Camberwell poisoning case.
"What then?""I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a certainty.
I added that, otherwise, I was persuaded, if they were all here, we might, with so many hands, build a barque large enough to carry us all away, either to the Brazils southward, or to the islands or Spanish coast northward; but that if, in requital, they should, when I had put weapons into their hands, carry me by force among their own people, I might be ill-used for my kindness to them, and make my case worse than it was before.
I cross the water without a barque, I cross the water without a boat.
La comtesse voulut débarquer au milieu de l’ouragan et des coups de tonnerre ; elle prétendait que, placée sur un rocher isolé au milieu du lac, et grand comme une petite chambre, elle aurait un spectacle singulier ; elle se verrait assiégée de toutes parts par des vagues furieuses, mais, en sautant de la barque, elle tomba dans l’eau.
nous le passerons, dit le mari d’un air fort poli, nous avons la barque de Charles-Joseph.