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Updated: January 25, 2026

Or, when, in a dead calm, it appears to lie sleeping, heaving its tumid bosom in occasional long-drawn sighs that make it rise and sink in rounded ridges of an oily look and a leadeny tinge, except at the equator, where they shine at midday like a burnished mirror.

John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson - She and I, Volume 2: A Love Story. A Life History.