The String of Pearls (1850), p. 721

"No, sir. She is so swept clear, that it would be hard to know her if she were one's own; but I don't think she belongs to this port at all."
"The gale is going down a bit."
"It is, sir. Don't you see it's coming in puffs like—It won't last much longer."

TODD PURSUED BY THE COLONEL AND MARK.{Figure}

"Gone!" cried a hundred voices at once.
"No—no!" cried Ingestrie. "Don't say that."
A wild shriek came across the surface of the water, and the ship that had been doing battle with the winds and the waves, disappeared.
"Oh, this is, indeed, terrible," said Colonel Jeffrey. "It is too horrible!"
"It is, indeed!" cried Ingestrie. "There is but one chance now of doing