Amazon.com description: Product Description: He hnever been so happy in his Ufe. The future is All his Tifeis effaced in the grey languor ot the sea, in the soft surge of the water about the ships bow as she ploughs through the long swell, eastward. The tepid moisture of the Gulf Stream makes his clothes feel damp and his hair stick together into curls that straggle over his forehead. There are porpoises about, lazily tumbling in the swell, and flying-fish skim from one grey wave to another, and the bow rises and falls gently in rhythm with the surging sing-song of the broken water. Martin has been asleep. As through in-, finite mists of greyness he looks back on the shajrp hatreds and wringing desires of his Ufe. Now a leaf seems to have been turned and new white page sprear betore him, unwritten on At laf;t ting hav Rcome to pass. And very faintly, Uke music heard across the water in the evening, blurred into strange harmonies, his old watchwords echo a Uttle in his mind. Like the red flame of the sunset setting fire to opal sea and sky, the old exaltation, the old flame that would consume to ashes ail the Ues in the world, the trumpetblast under which the walls of Jericho would fall down, stirs and broods in the womb of his grey lassitude. The bow rises and falls gently in rhythm with the surging sing-song of the broken water, as the steamer ploughs through the long swell of the Gulf Stream,
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