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Excerpt from Gray Mist: A Novel
Up and down the hazy coast-line other groups of sen tinel-like rocks still projected their dark, wicked crests, but in a little while they too would treacherously disap pear beneath the soft wash of the shore-bound water. Meanwhile, the mist seemed bent on enveloping the whole wide world - not blowing up from anywhere in particular, but simply evoked somehow by every silent aspiration of the ocean, intensifying a thousandfold the unusual calm of that great, dangerous Bay, the entire ?oor of which is grimly paved at unfathomable depths with the bleaching bones of drowned men, and the skele tons of shattered boats.
Far out beyond the dulled shadow of the rocks a dark Object - larger than any Northern sea-bird - was gently drifting. The exquisite dream-light within the heart of the fog, poured broadly about in soft di?usion through ?oating whorls of vapor, defined clearly upon the slightly crinkled surface a rumpled plaque of nut-brown belinge - a buoyant raft of wide - spread petticoats in the midst of which smiled a dimpled baby face, merry, rosy, and unafraid. Mist-drops hung to the dark eyelashes and to the ?uffy golden curls escaping from the prim bondage of a crimson Breton biggin stoutly tied beneath the fat chin, and two pudgy, pink-palmed hands beat the rippling water like paddles.
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