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[英文] 《The Finding of the Graiken 》作者:- William Hope Hodgson 【EPUB】

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William Hope Hodgson I When a year had passed, and still there was no news of the full-rigged ship Graiken, even the most sanguine of my old chum’s friends had ceased to hope perchance, somewhere, she might be above water. Yet Ned Barlow, in his inmost thoughts, I knew, still hugged to himself the hope that she would win home. Poor, dear old fellow, how my heart did go out towards him in his sorrow! For it was in the Graiken that his sweetheart had sailed on that dull January day some twelve months previously. The voyage had been taken for the sake of her health; yet since then—save for a distant signal recorded at the Azores—there had been from all the mystery of ocean no voice; the ship and they within her had vanished utterly. And still Barlow hoped. He said nothing actually, but at times his deeper thoughts would float up and show through the sea of his usual talk, and thus I would know in an indirect way of the thing that his heart was thinking. Nor was time a healer. It was later that my present good fortune came to me. My uncle died, and I—hitherto poor—was now a rich man. I n a breath, it seemed, I had become possessor of houses, lands, and money; also—in my eyes almost more important—a fine fore-and-aft-rigged yacht of some two hundred tons register. It seemed scarcely believable that the thing was mine, and I was all in a scutter to run away down to Falmouth and get to sea. In old times, when my uncle had been more than usually gracious, he had invited me to accompany him for a trip round the coast or elsewhere, as the fit might take him; yet never, even in my most hopeful moments, had it occurred to me that ever she might be mine. And now I was hurrying my preparations for a good long sea trip—for to me the sea is, and
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