And then the swallows on the Antonias, the admiral's ship.

We have already spoken of it.

Mardiou and your uncle Zeno saw with their own eyes the strange swallows drive away those which had built their nest on the helm of the Antonias, and kill the young ones with their cruel beaks.

An evil omen! "I cannot forget it.

And my dream, while I lay ill with fever far away from my mistress! But I have already lingered here too long.