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Updated: May 14, 2025
A natural hot spring might be the base of the luxury, but man’s labor had piped the water into stone-slab tubs and provided soap and towels. To sit and soak was a delight he had forgotten. He shampooed his unkempt head vigorously and allowed himself to forget all worries, wallowing in the sheer joy of being really clean again.
When the American Exploring Expedition lay at Tahiti, Captain Wilkes had a stone-slab fixed on Point Venus, and the distance from it to the Dolphin Shoal below carefully ascertained, so that future measurements will test the theory.
A more beautiful picture of an Englishman, faithful unto death, it was impossible to conceive. Kit thought of Sir Geoffrey Blount, the old Crusader with chipped nose mailed hands folded just so, casqued head tilted just so asleep on the stone-slab in the lady-chapel at home. But how far more beautiful than that broken-nosed old warrior was this Crusader of the Sea! The Parson bent.
Her right palm beneath his face, she stroked his long hair and his wan cheek with her other hand; and now she smiled with pride and reminiscence, now a grave, troubled look crossed her features. The light, a fiber wick burning in a stone cup of oil upon a stone-slab table in the center of the hut, "uttered unsteadily, casting huge and dancing shadows up the black walls.
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