Excerpt from A Sailor's Sweetheart, Vol. 2: An Account of the Wreck of the Sailing Ship, Waldershare, Etc It was pleasant to listen to the gentle voice of this thorough-bred sailor and genial hearted little man when he talked of his courtship, and how she had at first refused him, and how he went another voyage and then proposed again, and was accepted; and how he had carried her to the West-end of London to choose a fine dress to be married in, and how, after all the fitting and trim ming and trouble, it never arrived in time, and she had to be married in a plain dress, and how she had cried with vexation, and how he had turned to and cheered her up. She was a long way astern of him now, he would say; but the end of his tow-rope was in her hands: he knew the way home, and would get the scent by waiting a bit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.