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It seemed to be life itself that was sweeping her on with headlong inexorable force sweeping her into darkness and terror, and the awe of unknown days. Now all at once everything was still not a sound, not a pulsation... She was dead in her turn, and lay beside him with smooth upstaring face.
"'There's something aloft that looks like a man, howled a seaman, one of the upstaring crowd about the Dutchman. 'Come forrad, sir. You'll see him. "The mate and the captain went forward and looked up. "'It's a man, exclaimed the captain. 'Aloft there! What are you doing skylarking up in those cross-trees? Come down! he cried, angrily.
He paused a moment, then quoted: "''Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead Or a yawning hole in a battered head, And the scuppers glut with a rotting red. "'And there they lay while the soggy skies Dreened all day long in upstaring eyes, At murk sunset and at foul sunrise." He broke off and laughed at himself unsteadily. "Get your mind off it," I commanded shortly. "Fetch out the blank-book.
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