Quotation from: The Strength of the Strong

Written by: Jack London

From Clara, next morning, I got the tale of Margaret Henan's
favourite brother; and from here and there, in the week that
followed, I pieced together the tragedy of Margaret Henan. Samuel
Dundee had been the youngest of Margaret's four brothers, and, as
Clara told me, she had well-nigh worshipped him. He was going to
sea at the time, skipper of one of the sailing ships of the Bank
Line, when he married Agnes Hewitt. She was described as a slender
wisp of a girl, delicately featured and with a nervous organization
of the supersensitive order. Theirs had been the first marriage in
the "new" church, and after a two-weeks' honeymoon Samuel had
kissed his bride good-bye and sailed in command of the Loughbank, a
big four-masted barque.