1 "He'll know as soon as ever he claps eyes on us," Parsons replied.
2 "That vessel will soon be passing us," I said, after a moment's pause.
3 A shower of rain drove down upon us, each drop stinging like a hailstone.
4 "'Tis a fine chap, that squarehead Johnson we've for'ard with us," he said.
5 Half of them, I am sure, were anxious to see us shedding each other's blood.
6 Nothing was before us but the three or four months' hunting on the sealing grounds.
7 Fore and aft there was nothing that could have surprised us more than his consequent behaviour.
8 She was a pretty sight, leaping and flying toward us, and evidently bound to pass at close range.
9 Slowly the whole eastern sky filled with clouds that over-towered us like some black sierra of the infernal regions.
10 Our own whistle was blowing hoarsely, and from time to time the sound of other whistles came to us from out of the fog.
11 The fresh breeze was blowing right down upon us, and I could hear the whistle plainly, off to one side and a little ahead.
12 And ever out of the north-east the brave wind blows, driving us on our course two hundred and fifty miles between the dawns.
13 I leaned despairingly over the rail, watching the trim little schooner swiftly increasing the bleak sweep of ocean between us.
14 I had glanced occasionally at the approaching schooner, and it was now almost abreast of us and not more than a couple of hundred yards away.
15 The lee rail, where the dead man lay, was buried in the sea, and as the schooner lifted and righted the water swept across the deck wetting us above our shoe-tops.
16 Could we but find time and opportunity and utilize the last bit and every bit of the unborn life that is in us, we could become the fathers of nations and populate continents.
17 There is passion, adoration, in his eyes, and he goes about in a sort of trance, gazing in ecstasy at the swelling sails, the foaming wake, and the heave and the run of her over the liquid mountains that are moving with us in stately procession.
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