Russell, W: Rose Island - William Russell

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Excerpt from Rose Island: The Strange Story of a Love Adventure at Sea

With a slight lean to starboard, crushing through the long keen-edged seas of the North Atlantic, driven in thunder, and in trumpeting of divided canvas, now as moonrise with the starlight that shone upon it, sailed a noble modern ship, but a sailing-ship. She would be called a clipper. You saw her in the faint light of evening, and what was white was ghastly. The line betwixt her painted ports trembled through the ?ash of the sea like the little moons you sometimes observe hanging in wind-swept summer trees, and the foam about her bows was not the less splendid because of the dimness out of which it would leap in rushes with the beautiful gleam of spume.

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