Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London


In a way, from the standpoint of her personal welfare, the mutiny is
the best thing that could have happened to her. It has taken her
mind off her father and filled her waking hours with work to do.
This afternoon, standing above the open booby-hatch, I heard her
laugh ring out as in the old days coming down the Atlantic. Yes, and
she hums snatches of songs under her breath as she works. In the
second dog-watch this evening, after Mr. Pike had finished dinner and
joined us on the poop, she told him that if he did not soon re-rig
his phonograph she was going to start in on the piano. The reason
she advanced was the psychological effect such sounds of revelry
would have on the starving mutineers.

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