1 'Don't be too sure,' he continued.
2 The supernatural being had not been touched after he fell.
3 The worst that could be said of him was that he did not represent his class.
4 'What you say is rather profound, and probably erroneous,' he said, with a laugh.
5 We four affectionately watched his back as he stood in the bows looking to seaward.
6 As we left the miserable little wharf, he tossed his head contemptuously at the shore.
7 'I always ask leave, in the interests of science, to measure the crania of those going out there,' he said.
8 He was a seaman, but he was a wanderer, too, while most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life.
9 It was a little too early for the doctor, so I proposed a drink, and thereupon he developed a vein of joviality.
10 'Good, good for there,' he mumbled, and then with a certain eagerness asked me whether I would let him measure my head.
11 As we sat over our vermouths he glorified the Company's business, and by-and-by I expressed casually my surprise at him not going out there.
12 'I am not such a fool as I look, quoth Plato to his disciples,' he said sententiously, emptied his glass with great resolution, and we rose.
13 Rather surprised, I said Yes, when he produced a thing like calipers and got the dimensions back and front and every way, taking notes carefully.
14 Did it very well, too, no doubt, and without thinking much about it either, except afterwards to brag of what he had gone through in his time, perhaps.
15 And perhaps he was cheered by keeping his eye on a chance of promotion to the fleet at Ravenna by-and-by, if he had good friends in Rome and survived the awful climate.
16 No doubt he was; but he had been a couple of years already out there engaged in the noble cause, you know, and he probably felt the need at last of asserting his self-respect in some way.
17 For the rest, after his hours of work, a casual stroll or a casual spree on shore suffices to unfold for him the secret of a whole continent, and generally he finds the secret not worth knowing.
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