“But if I get there too late, too late; by a week, a day, do you think,
doctor, I shall not curse your prudence? And who knows, now, when a ship
will leave?”
“When? On Sunday, in five days; and that ship is ‘The Saint Louis’ a
famous clipper, and so good a sailor, that you will easily overtake the
two big three-masters that have sailed before you.”