He could see that she was tastefully, though not richly, dressed, and that she walked with an elastic step that revealed a light heart and the vigor of perfect health. Her face, of course, he could not analyze, since he had caught only the one brief but convincing glimpse of it.

Accounts still exist of sailors watching slack-handed from the gunwhales while one of their colleagues drowned.

We useter watch the steamers an' the hathis pilin' teak. Elephints a-pilin' teak

Why shouldn't we two take a house and bachelorize?