Presently the captain, after going to his cabin, rejoined Mr.Green.
"The glass has gone up again," Dick heard him say.
"That looks as if it were coming from the north, sir." "Yes, with some east in it.

It could not come from a better quarter." He turned and gazed steadily in that direction.
"Yes, there is dark water over there." "So there is, sir.

That is all right.

I don't mind how hard it blows, so that it does but come on gradually." "I agree with you.

These hurricane bursts, when one is becalmed, are always dangerous, even when one is under bare poles." Gradually the dark line on the horizon crept up towards the ship.