john4525
Cały czas gada!
Dołączył: 25 Sty 2011
Posty: 1733
Przeczytał: 0 tematów
Ostrzeżeń: 0/5
Skąd: England
|
 Wysłany: Śro 14:52, 20 Kwi 2011 Temat postu: always listening |
|
|
yixian:
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
s which worked clumsily. It never gave the satisfaction the old windlass had given [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but it worked and made my work possible.
In half a day I got the two topmasts aboard and the shears rigged and guyed as before. And that night I slept on board, and on deck beside my work. Maud [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who refused to stay alone ashore, slept in the forecastle. Wolf Larsen had sat about, listening to my repairing the windlass, and talking with Maud and me upon indifferent subjects. No reference was made on either side to the destruction of the shears, nor did he say anything further about my leaving his ship alone. But still I feared him, blind and helpless and listening, always listening, and I never let his strong arms get within reach of me while I worked.
On this night, sleeping under my beloved shears, I was aroused by his footsteps on the deck. It was a starlight night, and I could see the bulk of him dimly as he moved about. I rolled out of my blankets and crept noiselessly after him in my stocking-feet. He had armed himself with a draw-knife from the tool-locker, and with this he prepared to cut across the throat-halyards I had again rigged to the shears. He felt the halyards with his hands [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and discovered that I had not made them fast. This would not do for a draw-knife,
Post został pochwalony 0 razy
|
|
