Did it happen that you heard Caruso and Blanche Arral this winter in New York, Mr.Pathurst ?" I nodded, still marvelling over this spate of speech at table.
"Well, think of hearing them, and Homer, and Witherspoon, and Amato, every night for nights and nights at the Metropolitan; and then to give it the go-by, and get to sea and shake down to watch and watch." "You don't like the sea ?" I queried.
He sighed.
"I don't know.

But of course the sea is all I know--" "Except music," I threw in.
"Yes, but the sea and all the long-voyaging has cheated me out of most of the music I oughta have had coming to me." "I suppose you've heard Schumann Heink ?" "Wonderful, wonderful!" he murmured fervently, then regarded me with an eager wistfulness.

"I've half-a-dozen of her records, and I've got the second dog-watch below.

If Captain West don't mind.

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