The 'tween decks held its foul breath in wondering anxiety, afraid to breathe its suspicions.

The influence of this predominant idea showed itself by a strange shifting of atoms.

The mass of villainy, ignorance, and innocence began to be animated with something like a uniform movement.

Natural affinities came together, and like allied itself to like, falling noiselessly into harmony, as the pieces of glass and coloured beads in a kaleidoscope assume mathematical forms.

By seven bells it was found that the prison was divided into three parties--the desperate, the timid, and the cautious.