It will be a very dark night, for the sky is overcast and there is no moon." It was between ten and eleven when, just as they were about to turn in, the captain ran in.
"Quick, madame, you must hurry on your clothes! I heard a sound just now that could only be made by a boat.

As we are still aground, I shall bring a boat alongside and land.

There is nothing like being on the safe side!" The two privateers were lying a quarter of a mile farther out, and there were still lights burning on board them.
"The fools!" the captain growled, as Leigh and his sister came on deck; Leigh carrying little Louis, who had been put to bed fully dressed.

Indeed, no time had been lost, for his mother and Leigh had agreed that it would be better to lie down in their clothes, in case of an alarm being given.
"The fools!" the captain repeated.

"If they had extinguished every light, as they ought to have done, the boats would have had difficulty in finding them.