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And all the while Merman was perfectly sure that his very opponents who had knowledge enough to be capable judges were aware that his book, whatever errors of statement they might detect in it, had served as a sort of divining rod, pointing out hidden sources of historical interpretation; nay, his jealous examination discerned in a new work by Grampus himself a certain shifting of ground which so poor Merman declared was the sign of an intention gradually to appropriate the views of the man he had attempted to brand as an ignorant impostor.
Presently, indeed, there appeared an able extrait of Grampus's article in the valuable Rapporteur scientifique et historique, and Merman's mistakes were thus brought under the notice of certain Frenchmen who are among the masters of those who know on oriental subjects. In a word, Merman, though not extensively read, was extensively read about. Meanwhile, how did he like it?
When I saw it I felt that you had by some happy chance lit on the one human being who contained the very soul of an element. No merman could so belong of right to the sea as that boy." "Who was a London model, and had never heard the roar of waves or seen the surf break in the wind." "Genius!" the clergyman exclaimed. "Uniacke," continued the painter, "I got £1,000 for that picture.
After a while she began to look puzzled, as if she were trying to understand what he meant, but could not revealing a notion that he meant something. But as soon as ever she left the lake, she was so altered, that the prince said to himself: 'If I marry her, I see no help for it; we must turn merman and mermaid, and go out to sea at once.
There was boiled groats with sirup, cured fish, oatcakes with butter, a large stack of flatcakes, and a multitude of the best hotel dishes besides. The Merman bade him fall to and eat his fill, and ordered his daughter to bring out the last keg of Thronhjem aqua vitæ. "Of that sort the last is always the best," said he.
The merman and his daughter must be invited first, although it may not be agreeable to them to remain so long on dry land, but they shall have a wet stone to sit on, or perhaps something better; so I think they will not refuse this time.
It was so very old, it was there before our grandmothers' grandmothers were born, and yet it was a child compared with the merman, who is an old, quiet, strange-looking person, with eel-skin leggings, a scaly tunic adorned with yellow water-lilies, a wreath of sedges in his hair, and weeds in his beard. It must be confessed he was not very handsome to look at.
He carried a little basket made of osiers and filled with rare shells, which he presented to the princess. She took it with signs of thanks; but as it was getting dusk she retired, and the merman plunged back into the sea. When they were alone, Graziella said to her governess: 'What a dreadful-looking creature that was! Why do those odious sharks let him come near the tower?
But if the new Terrans were in that city.... He had to know to know and be able to warn his people. For the darkness of Pax was a memory they had not lost! "I must see them," he said. "That is true. And only you can tell us what manner of folk these strangers be," the merman chief agreed. "Therefore you shall go ashore with my warriors and look upon them to tell us the truth.
"For you," Dalgard pointed out, "but I am no dweller in the depths." "Neither were Those Others, yet they used these ways. And I tell you" in his earnestness the merman laid his hand once more on Dalgard's arm "to turn back now is out of the question. The death which haunts the darkness is still sniffing out our trail." Dalgard glanced involuntarily over his shoulder.
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