Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London

She joined me, and as she did so I noted, a sour grin on Mr. Pike's
face.

The eastern heavens were equally spectacular. That quarter of the
sky was sheer and delicate shell of blue, the upper portions of which
faded, changed, through every harmony, into a pale, yet warm, rose,
all trembling, palpitating, with misty blue tinting into pink. The
reflection of this coloured sky-shell upon the water made of the sea
a glimmering watered silk, all changeable, blue, Nile-green, and
salmon-pink. It was silky, silken, a wonderful silk that veneered
and flossed the softly moving, wavy water.