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 1 1 |         water, on the water, or in the water. He must have
 2 1 |          He must have been born in a boat, and he will certainly
 3 1 |       and he will certainly die in a boat at the last.~
 4 2 |      almost poetical. There was in his heart one great passion,
 5 3 |         us! You people who live in streets know nothing about
 6 3 |         without knowing why, as in passing through a cemetery --
 7 3 |        a cemetery -- and it is, in fact, the most sinister
 8 3 |     sinister of cemeteries, one in which one has no tomb.~
 9 5 |     maintain that the sea hides in its bosom vast tracts of
10 5 |     black depths where one rots in the slime. It is beautiful,
11 5 |       however, when it sparkles in the light of the rising
12 15|        was living, as I am now, in Mother Lafon's house, and
13 15|       Supreme Court, was living in the village of C., two leagues
14 17|        pleasant to smoke a pipe in this spot. I took up my
15 18|    stopped, and I seated myself in the stern on my sheepskin
16 20|    again. I was tossed about as in a tempest. I heard noises
17 21|    began pulling again, but all in vain. Then, with my oars,
18 22|     chain and tensed my muscles in a desperate effort. The
19 23|         slowly become enveloped in a thick white fog which
20 23|      the reeds, and farther off in the distance the plain,
21 23| distance the plain, lying white in the moonlight, with big
22 23|       as if buried to the waist in a cloud of cotton of singular
23 23|        lost, going by guesswork in this heavy fog, struggling
24 24|                                 In fact, as I should have had
25 24|         I could not find my way in the fog and that I should
26 25|         but there was something in me besides my will, and
27 25|         that day, the existence in us of two rival personalities,
28 25|        and each winning the day in turn.~
29 27|      violent effort I succeeded in becoming almost rational
30 27|       the points of the compass in succession. When my throat
31 29|        metres high, which shone in the moonlight with the dazzling
32 29|     sailed the great full moon, in the midst of a bluish, milky
33 30|               All the creatures in the water were awake. The
34 30|         no longer afraid. I was in the midst of such an unusual