"Marlow here appears to know something of every soul that ever went afloat in a sailor's body." Mr.Powell seemed wonderfully amenable to verbal suggestions for looking again out of the window, he muttered: "He was a good soul." This clearly referred to Captain Anthony of the _Ferndale_.

Marlow addressed his protest to me.
"I did not know him.

I really didn't.

He was a good soul.

That's nothing very much out of the way--is it?
And I didn't even know that much of him.