When I came down, of course we saw it from the other way; and I did not recognize it, at first.

So we managed to get past Cordouan without being seen ?" "Yes, we rounded the south point of the river before six o'clock, laid her head southwest for an hour and, just as it became light, changed our course north and passed three miles to seaward of the tower.

They doubtless supposed that we were coming up from Bayonne.
At any rate, they paid no attention to us." "The wind is blowing pretty strongly." "Yes, sir, we should have had a rough tumble of sea if it had been from the west, and should have had to lie up under shelter of the island; but as it is blowing right off shore, it is just about the right strength for us, and we shall make a quick run of it if it holds.
"I hear there is no news of Captain Martin, monsieur ?" "No, I am sorry to say there is not; but I have every hope that we shall find he has got to Poole before us." "We are all hoping that nothing has happened to him.

Of course, we heard that he was fighting in La Vendee and, as every one of us comes from one port or another there, we only wished that we had been with him." "You were well out of it, Edouard.

It was a terrible business.