Henry C. Rowland

“ Can you get someone to hold the horse?"
"Yes." The Captain put his hands to his face and emitted a musical howl. A frowsy head was immediately thrust up through the fore-hatch of the schooner.
"That is my crew," remarked the Captain. "Come ashore," he bawled.
The man aboard the schooner dropped into a dory, alongside, and in a few strokes reached the beach.
"Come and hold this horse!" ordered the Captain.
The Hon. Helen scrutinized the crew critically, and found him satisfactory. She and Mr. Stuyvesant then entered the dory and were pulled out to the schooner by the Captain. ”

“ The Captain sits silent; elaborating an argument. The Hon. Helen is writing notes in a journal, with an Art Nouveau cover. The Captain's voice finally puts the little sand-pipers in front of them to flight.
"It is the custom, when the captain of an American sailing-vessel is engaged to marry the daughter of a hundred earls for her to give him as many ..."
(Note for the Journal, ... written aloud: "The adult males of the coast tribes ...")
There is a sudden movement on the part of the "adult male," and the Journal goes spinning, face downward, on the sand. ”

“ Helen as insecure.
"Is your name Perkins?" she asked, pulling in the cob in a way that made him shake his gamy little head viciously.
"No!" answered the man, calmly, and dipped his brush in the paint-pot. The Hon. Helen made a mental note, which she decided to have entered in the Journal with the Art Nouveau cover, that she had bought in London just before sailing for America, that "The natives of the State of Maine were endowed with a spirit of independence not to be found in the better classes of the larger cities of the United States." ”

“ Twice during the night the girl was awakened by the roaring of the wind, as the gale, now sweeping in from the sea, shook the wooden structure from ridge-pole to cellar. The following morning, when she looked from her window, the sight of the sea frightened her. ”

“ It is a pleasure to be made to go against your will, ... if the driver understands ..." (a change of tone to the sedate) . "Thank you, Captain, now I will go below."
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The waning day had turned the bristling mountains into downy, purpling pillows, when, late the following evening, the Merry Maid crept wearily into the harbor against the first light puffs of the landward night-breeze. The little party on deck were silent, held in respectful sympathy for the last sad rites of the dying day. Then cheerful shore-sounds broke the spell, and lights began to twinkle in the shadows. ”

“ Helen, impatiently. "I suppose," she resumed, a trifle ironically, "the captain would also expect to sit at the same table with the passengers?"
"Why, of course. He presides" (calmly) .
Mr. Stuyvesant fidgeted. The Hon. Helen pondered. The young man wiped his dripping paint-brush, reflectively, upon the bottom of the dory.
"If that is the usual custom here," began the girl, "I suppose there ... would ... be ... no objection ... Now, in regard to the accommodation. Is the boat perfectly clean?"
"Absolutely. As clean as fresh paint can make her. ”

“ Helen.
They coasted down the other side of the dune, and found themselves on a narrow strip of beach. A little schooner lay at anchor a few rods from the shore, and near the boathouse, that stood a little above high-water mark, a man was hard at work painting a dory. ”

“ Then his features relaxed, and he smiled.
(Note 3—for the Journal: "Some of the males of the coast tribe of Maine have exceedingly handsome—that is, intelligent, faces, keen, gray eyes, and remarkably fine teeth. Their figures are beautiful—that is, well proportioned, and their ...") ”