He also notices the extreme clear and steady light of the stars, which we can vouch to be true to a most extraordinary degree even in Europe, having distinctly seen the planet Venus, in a dazzling sunshine, at half past eleven, from the summit of the port of Venasque, in the Pyrenees.

THE LAST PORT XXVII.

THE VOICE AT THE PORT-HOLE XXX.

To such unreasoning creatures, the obvious reply is, "When you have bottled some peculiarly fine Port, do you usually begin to drink it at once?"

It was much more sensible to offer yourself for admiration because you had drunk three bottles of port at a sitting, than to offer yourself for admiration (as Lady Grove does) because you think it right to say "port wine" while other people think it right to say "port."

It was much more sensible to offer yourself for admiration because you had drunk three bottles of port at a sitting, than to offer yourself for admiration (as Lady Grove does) because you think it right to say "port wine" while other people think it right to say "port."

It was much more sensible to offer yourself for admiration because you had drunk three bottles of port at a sitting, than to offer yourself for admiration (as Lady Grove does) because you think it right to say "port wine" while other people think it right to say "port."

Whether Lady Grove's preference for port wine (I mean for the phrase port wine) is a piece of mere nonsense I do not know; but at least it is a very good example of the futility of such tests in the matter even of mere breeding.

Whether Lady Grove's preference for port wine (I mean for the phrase port wine) is a piece of mere nonsense I do not know; but at least it is a very good example of the futility of such tests in the matter even of mere breeding.

"Port wine" may happen to be the phrase used in certain good families; but numberless aristocrats say "port," and all barmaids say "port wine."

"Port wine" may happen to be the phrase used in certain good families; but numberless aristocrats say "port," and all barmaids say "port wine."

"Port wine" may happen to be the phrase used in certain good families; but numberless aristocrats say "port," and all barmaids say "port wine."

She knows that in the educated "middle class" there is an idea that it is vulgar to say port wine; therefore she reverses the ideashe says that the man who would say "port" is a man who would say, "How is your wife?"

She knows that in the educated "middle class" there is an idea that it is vulgar to say port wine; therefore she reverses the ideashe says that the man who would say "port" is a man who would say, "How is your wife?"

When the cruise of the Alabama gave rise to diplomatic correspondence, and our government protested against her receiving such treatment from neutrals as would facilitate her career, I was, amongst my colleagues under similar obligations, charged to protest against her being admitted to the privileges of a national man-of-war in the port of Civita Vecchia.

Antonelli replied to my communication of the protest that she would be admitted to the port with the same privileges as a man-of-war of any other nation, and the reply was given with almost explosive promptness and vivacity.

The Government was shipping men over to him as fast as they could, and every port along the east coast was choked with guns and horses and stores.

The hospital was filled to overflowing with the survivors of the wreck, all of whom had been brought into the port of St. Margaret's.

I have often wondered what became of him, because I knew he was on the Eitel Friederich when she first came into port, but his name didn't show up among the ship's officers when they were interned.

It is a disheartening fact for the teetotallers that he had drunk a bottle of port wine every day since he grew up.

It was the base of the British Expeditionary Force, and the Army in the field would be starved in less than a week if it were cut off from this port of supplies.

They had had a nasty "dusting" on the voyage, and as they marched through the streets of the port some of them looked rather washed out.

These words from the great Duke Casimir startled me, and though I knew well enough that Michael Texel, the Burgomeister's son, was waiting for me by the corner of the Jew's Port, I decided that, as I might never hear Duke Casimir declare his secretest soul again, I should even bide where I was; and that was in the crevice of the wall among the old clothes, which gave off such a faint, musty, sleepy smell I could scarcely keep awake.

On this night of which I speak it was almost bedtime when I heard a knocking at the outer port, and went to open the wicket.

Here was I, Hugo Gottfried, the son of the Red Axe, at the inner port of a treasonable society.

"She lies with a sharp list; sand's high up her starboard bilge.

Sand's washed down and buried the starboard bunkers.

"Starboard bunkers buried?"

It's plain we shan't get much coal from the starboard bunkers until we can lift her to an even keel.

"Starboard your helm, Mr. Chadwick.

"The starboard watch has been called," he said, "and you are to take charge of the deck, relieving LeVere.

"Starboard watch, Senor.

There's one or two others in the starboard watch who are likely enough all right, but I don't get to see them alone much.

Then in the starboard watch I'd pick out Jim Carter and Joe Cole, two Swedes, Carlson and Ole Hallin, and another nigger.

You sound these men and get them together; wake up the ones in the starboard watch you feel sure are all right, and have them slip quietly on deck.

If he can add to these five or six from the starboard watch below this will make a total, not counting LeVere and myself, of fifteen.

Are the four from the starboard watch on deck?" He nodded, clutching and unclutching his hands nervously, scarcely able to restrain himself.

What lay before me in facing the members of the starboard watch it was impossible to conceive, but they had to be sorted out, and it was my task.

"Anything to report?" "No, sir; all haze off the port quarter, and nothing showing to starboard.

"Yes, sir, I did; it was stored ter starboard, an ol'fashioned sea chest, padlocked, an' looked like a relic, but a damned strong box.

Where are the men?" "Forrard, sir, a hangin' over the starboard rail.

The rest of us crouched along the starboard rail, peering out into the mist, and listening for the slightest sound.

Lower that starboard quarter-boat you four, and see to the plugs and oars.

While he was thus employed, they shipped a sea on the starboard side, which all thought would send them to the bottom.

The submarine passed close under the stern, steered to the starboard side, then recrossed the stern to the port side, and when she was some fifty yards off on the port beam her conning tower appeared on the surface and she steered to pass round the stern again and towards one of the ship's boats on the starboard beam.

The submarine passed close under the stern, steered to the starboard side, then recrossed the stern to the port side, and when she was some fifty yards off on the port beam her conning tower appeared on the surface and she steered to pass round the stern again and towards one of the ship's boats on the starboard beam.

The situation now was that the submarine was passing from the port to the starboard quarter, and at any moment the 4-inch magazine and the remaining depth charges in the after part of the Dunraven might be expected to explode.

The 4-inch gun's crew aft knew the imminence of this danger, but not a man moved although the deck beneath them was rapidly becoming red hot; and Captain Campbell was so certain of the magnificent discipline and gallantry of his crew that he still held on so that the submarine might come clearly into view on the starboard side clear of the smoke of the fire aft.

The submarine gradually closed, keeping submerged, until within about a quarter of a mile, when she passed slowly round the ship, and finally came to the surface at a distance of about 500 yards on the starboard quarter.

Then the pilots of the place put out brisk and leapt on board; "Why, what hope or chance have ships like these to pass?" laughed they: "Rocks to starboard, rocks to port, all the passage scarred and scored, Shall the 'Formidable' here with her twelve and eighty guns, Think to make the river-mouth by the single narrow way, Trust to enter where 'tis ticklish for a craft of twenty tons,