and savoring its ingenious teachings, when Conseil interrupted my reading.
“Would master kindly come here for an instant?” he said to me in an odd voice.
“What is it, Conseil?”
“It’s something that master should see.”
I stood up, went, leaned on my elbows before the window, and I saw it.
In the broad electric daylight, an enormous black mass, quite motionless, hung suspended in the midst of the waters. I observed it carefully,
and savoring its ingenious teachings, when Conseil interrupted my reading.
“Would master kindly come here for an instant?” he said to me in an odd voice.
“What is it, Conseil?”
“It’s something that master should see.”
I stood up, went, leaned on my elbows before the window, and I saw it.
In the broad electric daylight, an enormous black mass, quite motionless, hung suspended in the midst of the waters. I observed it carefully,
