We read of such things in newspapers and books.

But to have them brought home to one, after living one's own life among honest people--I tell you it stupefied me!" He said no more.

Below them in the cabin, voices were laughing and talking, to a cheerful accompaniment of clattering knives and forks.
Around them spread the exultant glory of sea and sky.

All that they heard, all that they saw, was cruelty out of harmony with the miserable story which had just reached its end.

With one accord the three men rose and paced the deck, feeling physically the same need of some movement to lighten their spirits.