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He is more original than Carlyle, and so profound that it seems as if only a pearl-diver could follow him to such a depth. Yet his natural element is so pure, calm and tranquil, that we easily accomplish what seems at first an impossible descent. In "Epic Philosophy" he has dealt with the problem of good and evil in a manner more noble and penetrating than was ever before attempted.
Then down he went again, while Cuffy stood on the shore regarding him with mute amazement. Never did pearl-diver grope for the treasures of the deep with more eager intensity than did John Jarwin search for that lost tobacco. He remained under water until he became purple in the face, and, coming to the surface after each dive, stayed only long enough to recharge his lungs with air.
As he attended her through the antechamber, she pointed to the statue of the pearl-diver. "My secret is not a pearl," said she; "yet a man might drown himself in plunging after it." After Kenyon had closed the door, she went wearily down the staircase, but paused midway, as if debating with herself whether to return.
"The most famous pearl-fishing grounds are situated in the Persian Gulf and off the coast of Ceylon," answered Mildmay. "And I believe," he added, "that in both cases they are Government property, and strictly preserved. But I have no doubt there are plenty of oyster-beds which are beyond the reach of the ordinary pearl-diver; and it is one of those that we must seek.
He was by nature a thinker a seeker after truth. There was no problem, social, political or philosophical, which he was not ready to grapple with. He could plunge into these subjects like a pearl-diver who means to touch bottom, and would never come out till his last breath was spent. This mental habit and his continual suffering made him only too serious, too much in earnest.
She reached at last the platform below the cave, and turning, gave a long gaze at the moonlit country; 'her last, she said; then she moved, and the cave hid her as the water of the warm seas close over the pearl-diver. "Just so the night before had it hidden Lawrence. And they never came back, they two: never, the people say.
He told her that the pearl-diver always carried a bag to hold the treasures that he finds at the bottom of the sea. To her vivid imagination, the empty bag was even now filled with shining pearls, the rarest treasures of the sea.
"Marry!" protested Madge indignantly. "Why do you think I shall marry? Why, I was wishing this very minute that I were a man so that I could set out on a voyage of discovery and sail around the world in a little ship of my own. Or, think, one might be a pearl-diver, or lead some exciting life like that.
Several officers are quoted as having observed immersions of three minutes' duration, and M. Berbrugger witnessed ona of six minutes and five seconds and another of five minutes and fifty-five seconds. The shortest of these periods is longer than the best pearl-diver can remain below the surface of salt-water.
I read and re-read his poems, not caring to write a line myself. I worked as a dish-washer or pearl-diver for several weeks in Boston, and bought a very cheap second-hand suit. I shifted my mind like a weather vane and decided against shipping to England, with the forlorn hope of, somehow attending Oxford or Cambridge, and studying English literature there.
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