The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man: Taken from His Own Mouth, in His Passage to England, from Off Cape Horn in America, in the Ship Hector |
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Page 88 - returned again, kind angel,' said I, ' to bless a wretch who can only be happy in adoring you! Can it be, that you who have so many advantages over me, should quit all the pleasures that nature has formed you for, and all your friends and relations, to take an asylum in my arms
Page 82 - in the window, I saw something in human shape lying at my feet. I gave the word, ' Who's there ?' Still no one answered. My heart was ready to force a way through my side. I was for a while fixed to the earth like a statue. At length recovering, I stepped in, fetched my lamp, and returning
Page 85 - the middle of them: for I was now under no apprehensions of her leaving me, as she had before this time had so many opportunities of doing so, but never once attempted it. When the weather cleared up a little by the lengthening of daylight, I took courage one afternoon to invite her to walk
Page 82 - come again. Well, I am now resolved to face them; come life, come death ! It is not to be alone I thus dread; but to have company about me, and not know who or what, is death to me worse than I can suffer from them, be they who or what they will.
Page 80 - my ante-chamber, of mud and earth burnt on my own hearth into a sort of brick; in making a window at one end of the above-said chamber, to let in what little light would come through the trees, when I did not choose to open my door;
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Page 88 - then stepping to the edge of the lake for the advantage of a descent before her, sprung up into the air and away she went, farther than my eyes could follow her. I was quite astonished. 'So,' says I, 'then all is over! all