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Updated: April 30, 2025

"Why, on Corsica," I answered, pointing with my compass's foot as he bent over the chart. "On Corsica. Where else?" It wanted between three and four hours of sunset when we made the landfall and assured ourselves that what appeared so like a low cloud on the east-north-eastern horizon was indeed the wished-for island.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Sir John Constantine : Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756

And Pheles wondered at the compass's magic truth. 'I will give it to you, Robert said, 'in return for that charm about your neck. Pheles made no answer. He first laughed, snatched the compass from Robert's hand, and turned away still laughing. 'Be comforted, the Priest whispered, 'our time will come.

E. (Edith) Nesbit - The Story of the Amulet