To talk of 'prizing her open' as if she were an oyster, to use any but the finest and subtlest and most pliable tools upon her was impious and absurd.

“The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.”

“she read, and so reading she was ascending, she felt, on to the top, on to the …”

“And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride…”

“I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.”