Close Quarters by William Golding

Author:William Golding [William Golding]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571267439
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2013-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

I worked that out and more of the like during the last dog. Oh, I remember now. It went

Fairest creature lovelier than a woman

In form and feature really most uncommon.

The lines were wrenched from me. They came all in one piece.

Nor would I lay

A feather of regret upon thy soul.

The feather is particularly felicitous, is it not?”

A painful suspicion grabbed at my heart.

“You are from Alcyone!”

“Where else in this waste of water?

A long, long exile now must be my lot.

Do you approve the alliteration? We shall meet again of course. But I am summoned to a conference with the first lieutenant in the hold.”

He withdrew briskly. I shouted for Wheeler who as usual was near my hutch. He got me out of my oilskins.

“That will be all, Wheeler.”

A young man with golden locks, fair face and weeks of access to Miss Chumley! Now I experienced all that anguish which I had thought exaggerated by poets!

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