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Just now both winds and waves are tolerably favourable."
Black specks quivering on the billows--such are men on the ocean."
I dare say there will be nothing wrong to-night."
You may get into such a mess that you will find it hard to get out of
it."
"All goes well at present."
The doctor's eyes were fixed on the north-east. The skipper continued,--
"Let us once reach the Gulf of Gascony, and I answer for our safety. Ah!
I should say I am at home there. I know it well, my Gulf of Gascony. It
is a little basin, often very boisterous; but there, I know every
sounding in it and the nature of the bottom--mud opposite San Cipriano,
shells opposite Cizarque, sand off Cape Peñas, little pebbles off
Boncaut de Mimizan, and I know the colour of every pebble."
The skipper broke off; the doctor was no longer listening.
The doctor gazed at the north-east. Over that icy face passed an
extraordinary expression. All the agony of terror possible to a mask of
stone was depicted there. From his mouth escaped this word, "Good!"
His eyeballs, which had all at once become quite round like an owl's,
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