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Updated: May 7, 2025

"Yes, but they are a long way off, those isles, are they not?" "Not very; four leagues." "Four leagues! That is a voyage." The fishermen laughed in M. Agnan's face. "Hear me, then," said the latter with an air of simple stupidity; "four leagues off you lose sight of land, do you not?" "Why, not always."

Alexandre Dumas - The Vicomte De Bragelonne

"Yes, but they are a long way off, those isles, are they not?" "Not very; four leagues." "Four leagues! That is a voyage." The fisherman laughed in M. Agnan's face. "Hear me, then," said the latter with an air of simple stupidity; four leagues off you lose sight of land, do you not?" "Why, not always."

Alexandre Dumas - Ten Years Later