by a slight shiver.

In this nineteenth century, the Shambles bank is in ruins; the

breakwater recently constructed has overthrown and mutilated, by the

force of its surf, that high submarine architecture, just as the jetty,

built at the Croisic in 1760, changed, by a quarter of an hour, the

course of the tides. And yet the tide is eternal. But eternity obeys man

more than man imagines.

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