Give me the lamp a little nearer to mine eyes , till that I write these words for you . '' He wrote a note `` to his worshipful kinsman , Sir John Hamley ; '' and then a second , which he-left without external superscripture . `` This is for the duke , '' he said . `` The word is ` England and Edward , ' and the counter , ` England and York . ' '' `` And Joanna , my lord ? '' asked Dick . `` Nay , ye must get Joanna how ye can , '' replied the baron . `` I have named you for my choice in both these letters ; but ye must get her for yourself , boy . I have tried , as ye see here before you , and have lost my life . More could no man do . '' By this time the wounded man began to be very weary ; and Dick , putting the precious papers in his bosom , bade him be of good cheer , and left him to repose . The day was beginning to break , cold and blue , with flying squalls of snow . Close under the lee of the Good Hope , the coast lay in alternate rocky headlands and sandy bays ; and further inland the wooded hill-tops of Tunstall showed along the sky . Both the wind and the sea had gone down ; but the vessel wallowed deep , and scarce rose upon the waves . Lawless was still fixed at the rudder ; and by this time nearly all the men had crawled on deck , and were now gazing , with blank faces , upon the inhospitable coast . `` Are we going ashore ? '' asked Dick . `` Ay , '' said Lawless , `` unless we get first to the bottom . '' And just then the ship rose so languidly to meet a sea , and the water weltered so loudly in her hold , that Dick involuntarily seized the steersman by the arm . `` By the mass ! ''
cried XXXXX , as the bows of the Good Hope reappeared above the foam , `` I thought we had foundered , indeed ; my heart was at my throat . ''
Ay Dick England Joanna Lawless Tunstall first kinsman left steersman