As Death Draws Near
“The sea did calm as we passed to the south of the Isle of Man sometime in the hours just before nightfall. However, we first had to pass through a squall, which tossed the boat about like a piece of driftwood.
Soon after our conversation had ended, I’d been forced to go belowdecks or risk being soaked to the skin and possibly flung overboard. Not surprisingly, because of this combination of unfortunate elements, I was soon quite ill. I spent the next few hours on the bottom bunk, moaning an...d begging for the world to stop moving. It was then that I missed my cat, Earl Grey, most.
I had decided to leave the mischievous gray mouser in the care of my nieces and nephews at my sister’s town house in Edinburgh. It had seemed unfair to drag him on such a long carriage ride to the Lake District in Cumberland and then on to London, when he could be happily ensconced in the nursery with the children, whom he adored with the indifferent fervency that only a cat can manage.MoreLess
Soon after our conversation had ended, I’d been forced to go belowdecks or risk being soaked to the skin and possibly flung overboard. Not surprisingly, because of this combination of unfortunate elements, I was soon quite ill. I spent the next few hours on the bottom bunk, moaning an...d begging for the world to stop moving. It was then that I missed my cat, Earl Grey, most.
I had decided to leave the mischievous gray mouser in the care of my nieces and nephews at my sister’s town house in Edinburgh. It had seemed unfair to drag him on such a long carriage ride to the Lake District in Cumberland and then on to London, when he could be happily ensconced in the nursery with the children, whom he adored with the indifferent fervency that only a cat can manage.MoreLess
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