The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
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"We'll sound as we get on." "The Channel is not an ordinary sea. The water rises fifty feet with the spring tides, and twenty-five with neap tides. Here we are in slack water. I thought you looked scared." "We'll sound to-night." "To sound you must heave to, and that you cannot do." "Why not?" "On account of the wind." "We'll try." "The squall is close on us." "We'll sound, Master Doctor." "You could not even bring to." "Trust in God." "Take care what you say. Pronounce not lightly the awful name." "I will sound, I tell you." "Be sensible; you will have a gale of wind presently." |
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