Woven with the Ship: A Novel of 1865
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Brady Cyrus Townsend. Woven with the Ship: A Novel of 1865
PREFACE
Part I. WOVEN WITH THE SHIP
CHAPTER I. The Building of the Ship
CHAPTER II. His Last Command
CHAPTER III. The Woman and the Man who Loved Her
CHAPTER IV. Cast up by the Sea
CHAPTER V. The Rescue
CHAPTER VI. The Water-Witch
CHAPTER VII. The Home of the Sea-Maiden
CHAPTER VIII "Old Ironsides"
CHAPTER IX. The Sword of the Constitution
CHAPTER X. Facing World-Old Problems
CHAPTER XI. Blows at the Heart
CHAPTER XII. Broken Resolutions
CHAPTER XIII. Love Holds the Yoke-Lines
CHAPTER XIV. In the Shadow of the Ship
CHAPTER XV. Forgiveness the First Lesson
CHAPTER XVI. A Cloud on the Horizon
CHAPTER XVII. Freed!
CHAPTER XVIII "But yet a Woman"
CHAPTER XIX. The Usual Course
CHAPTER XX. Rivals Meeting
CHAPTER XXI. A Happy Consummation
CHAPTER XXII "Samson Agonistes"
Part II. VERACIOUS TALES OF VARIOUS SORTS
Coups de Théâtre
A VAUDEVILLE TURN. COMEDY
THE LAST TRIBUTE TO HIS GENIUS. TRAGEDY
Out of the West
IN OKLAHOMA. AN IDYL OF THE PRAIRIE IN THREE FLIGHTS
PASSING THE LOVE OF WOMAN. THE END OF A FRONTIER TELL
With Great Guns and Small
THE FINAL PROPOSITIONS. A DRAMA OF THE CIVIL WAR
THE CAPTAIN OF H. B. M. SHIP DIAMOND ROCK. THE TALE OF A STRANGE SHIP OFF MARTINIQUE
"WHEN LOVELY WOMAN STOOPS TO FOLLY" THE FATE OF A COQUETTE OF 1815
SAVED BY HER SLIPPER. A ROMANCE OF THE BORDER
"SONNY BOY'S" DIARY. AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR IN CHINA
Extravaganzas
THE AMAZING YARN OF THE BO'S'N'S MATE. AN ACCOUNT OF AN UNUSUAL PRIZE
THE DISEMBODIED SPIRIT. THE STORY OF A WANDERING SENSATION
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Just half a century had elapsed since, cutting down the virgin forest to make room for the ways, they laid her keel blocks in the clearing. With the cunning brain of Henry Eckford, one of the greatest of our shipbuilders, to plan, and the skilful hands of the New England shipwrights to execute, with timber cut by the sturdy woodsmen from where it stood in the forest, the giant frames rose apace, until presently, in an incredibly short time, there stood upon Ship House Point a mighty vessel ready for the launching.
Ship House Point – so called from the ship – was a long ridge of land sloping gently down from a low hill and extending far out into Lake Ontario. It helped to enclose on one side a commodious lake haven known in that day, and ever since, as Sewell's Harbor, from old George Sewell, a hunter, fisherman, innkeeper, and trader, who had settled there years before.
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"I wonder what Josephine would say if she could see me now? Is all our difference of rank but a matter of uniform? By Jove! I forgot all about her. I don't believe I've thought of her since I left them; yet, if the novels are right, I should have been thinking of her when I stood on the deck of the yacht expecting every moment would be my last. I was thinking of that girl in the boat, though. Wasn't she splendid? Plucky, pretty – well! Gracious me, Richard Revere, at the age of twenty-four you are surely not going to fall in love with the first woman you see, especially since you have been engaged to Josephine Remington pretty much ever since you were born, – or ever since she was born, which was four years later. But I swear I'd give a year of Josephine's cold, classic, beautiful regularity for a minute of – pshaw, don't be a fool! I'll go and look at the yacht. I wonder whether anything's left of her? Nobody would think there had been a storm of any kind to look at the lake to-day. What a lovely morning!"
Indeed, the wind had gone down to a gentle breeze, and the surface of the lake was tossing in thousands of merry little waves, their white crests sparkling in the sunlight.
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