Eloise, are you there?
or have the spectres of this haunted journey flown away with you ?" "Angels or demons, they would have naught of me," she replied in seeming unconsciousness of his mood.

"My thoughts, I fear, have been sufficiently sad to accord well with the gloom, only my shadows are within, not without." "_Sacre_! mine are all yonder," he exclaimed, indicating with a gesture the vast extent of angry water.

"Why should I bear heavy heart, except for brooding phantoms of the night?
Life is still mine in all its sweetness.

Not that I greatly valued it, to be sure, yet 'tis somewhat better than I once thought, and there is always pleasure left in the world for the young.

From whence springs your mood of sadness, Eloise ?" "My thought was with my father." "'Tis not strange it should be.