49/110 There was in his eyes something of the dead _Triton_ when in pursuit of a distant woman's skirt on the coast. They all promise me the sacrifice of their existence from the very first words. Men don't know any other song. Don't imitate them, Captain." She remained pensive a long time. Twilight was rapidly falling; half the sky was of amber and the other half of a midnight blue in which the first stars were beginning to twinkle. |