"We may need it." I took her by the shoulder and hurried her on deck, over the bulwark, down the gang-plank, and so on to the place where I had left Euphemia.
I found the dear girl there, quiet and collected, all up in a little bunch, to shield herself from the wind.

I wasted no time, but hurried the two women over to the house of our milk-merchant.

There, with some difficulty, I roused the good woman, and after seeing Euphemia and Pomona safely in the house, I left them to tell the tale, and ran back to the boat.
The boarder was working like a Trojan.

He had already a pile of our furniture on the beach.
I set about helping him, and for an hour we labored at this hasty and toilsome moving.

It was indeed a toilsome business.