The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn

The others all went home and grew warlike, arming them- selves against the threatened danger; but still weeks, nay months, rolled on, and winter was turning into spring, and yet the country side remained so profoundly tranquil that every one began to believe that the con- victs must after all have been drowned, and that the boat found by sagacious Blockstrop had been capsized and thrown bottom upwards.