Mrs. Devereux's idea of irregularity was that it absorbed the devoted victim, kept her aghast.
Devereux insisted on remaining to the last, and he was taken off in the second boat.
Mrs. Devereux grew, indeed, half afraid of the momentous enterprise on which she was about to enter.
So Devereux's talk held her for a while in a sort of trance, melancholy and delightful.
Devereux, who had charge of the deck, was about to shorten sail, when Noakes came up to relieve him.
