It gave the little clothing drummer such a startstartthat he actually letlethis cigar fallfallto the sidewalk and wentgooff weakly in the teeth of the windwindto the saloon .
The floodfloodhad mademake, the windwindwas nearly calm , and being bound down the river , the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide .
We had been wanderingwander, indeed , in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning ; but since dinnerdinner( Mrs. Reed , when there was no company , dined early ) the cold winter windwindhad broughtbringwith it cloudscloudso sombre , and a rainrainso penetrating , that further out-door exercise was now out of the question .
On the 5th of November , which was the beginning of summer in those parts , the weather being very hazy , the seamen spiedspya rock within half a cable ’s length of the ship ; but the windwindwas so strong , that we were drivendrivedirectly upon it , and immediately splitsplit.
The stars were shining , and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful ; and I heardhearan owl , away off , who-whooing about somebody that was dead , and a whippowill and a dog cryingcryabout somebody that was going to die ; and the windwindwas tryingtryto whisper something to me , and I could n't make out what it was , and so it made the cold shiversshiverrun over me .
At such a time I foundfindout for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard ; and that Philip Pirrip , late of this parish , and also Georgiana wife of the above , were dead and buried ; and that Alexander , Bartholomew , Abraham , Tobias , and Roger , infant children of the aforesaid , were also dead and buried ; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard , intersected with dikes and mounds and gates , with scattered cattle feedingfeedon it , was the marshes ; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river ; and that the distant savage lair from which the windwindwas rushing was the sea ; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraidafraidof it all and beginning to crycry, was Pip .
The ship was no sooner out of the Humber than the windwindbegan to blowblowand the sea to riserisein a most frightful manner ; and , as I had never been at sea before , I was most inexpressibly sicksickin body and terrifiedterrifyin mind .
She could seeseethat he was nervous ; one would expect a bony young man with his face slightly reddenedreddenby the windwind, and his hair not altogether smooth , to be nervous in such a party .
CHAPTER 1 The studio was filled with the rich odourodourof roses , and when the light summer windwindstirredstiramidst the trees of the garden , there came through the open door the heavy scentscentof the lilac , or the more delicate perfumeperfumeof the pink-flowering thorn .
CHAPTER I THE STRANGE MAN 'S ARRIVALarrivalThe stranger camecomeearly in February , one wintry day , through a biting windwindand a driving snowsnow, the last snowfallsnowfallof the year , over the down , walkingwalkfrom Bramblehurst railway station , and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand .