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 Dick , as the bows of the Good Hope reappeared above the foam , `` I thought we had foundered , indeed ; my heart was at my throat . '' In the waist , Greensheve , Hawksley , and the better men of both companies were busy breaking up the deck to build a raft ; and to these Dick joined himself , working the harder to drown the memory of his predicament . But , even as he worked , every sea that struck the poor ship , and every one of her dull lurches , as she tumbled wallowing among the waves , recalled him with a horrid pang to the immediate proximity of death . Presently , looking up from his work , he saw that they were close in below a promontory ; a piece of ruinous cliff , against the base of which the sea broke white and heavy , almost overplumbed the deck ; and , above that , again , a house appeared , crowning a down . Inside the bay the seas ran gayly , raised the Good Hope upon their foam-flecked shoulders , carried her beyond the control of the steersman , and in a moment dropped her , with a great concussion , on the sand , and began to break over her half-mast high , and roll her to and fro .
Another great wave followed , raised her again , and carried her yet farther in ; and then a third succeeded , and XXXXX her far inshore of the more dangerous breakers , wedged upon a bank .
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