Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London


"You won't see her for a couple of days," Captain West told me. "Her
mother was the same way--a born sailor, but always sick at the outset
of a voyage.''


"It's the shaking down." Mr. Pike astonished me with the longest
observation I had yet heard him utter at table. "Everybody has to
shake down when they leave the land. We've got to forget the good
times on shore, and the good things money'll buy, and start watch and
watch, four hours on deck and four below. And it comes hard, and all
our tempers are strung until we can make the change. Did it happen
that you heard Caruso and Blanche Arral this winter in New York, Mr.
Pathurst?"

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