The Privateers. E-book. Formato PDF Henry Brereton Marriott Watson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The wind by this time had risen to a petty gale, and came over the brow Of the cliffs from the sea with considerable force. The blue sea was aglitter with foam-heads, and in the dim haze Of the horizon one seemed to discern, or imagine, the mass Of the adjacent continent. Sea-birds cried and ?ew 'twixt the cliff and the water, and a small steamer ploughed heavily across the middle distance, rounding the Island from Shanklin or Ventnor. I made these observations with a mind pleasantly and idly occupied, and then I turned and saw Miss Lovell.