Can one see the sea from here, Mr.De la Borne ?" "It is scarcely a hundred yards away," he answered.

"This window looks straight across the German Ocean, and if you look long enough you will see the white of the breakers.

Listen! You will hear, too, what my forefathers, and those who begat them, have heard, from the birth of the generations." The girl, with strained face, stood looking out into the darkness.
Outside, the wind and sea imposed their thunder upon the land.

Within, there was no sound but the softer patter of the cards, the languid voices of the four who played bridge.

A curious little company, on the whole.