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Anthony's eyes grew big onder while he listened to these noises He

became so attentive that he did not notice Mrs Brown till she actually

stopped before him for a moment to say: "Mrs Anthony doesn't want any assistance, sir"

This was you understand the voyage before Mr Powell--young Powell

then--joined the Ferndale; chance having arranged that he should get

his start in life in that particular ship of all the ships then in the

port of London The most unrestful ship that ever sailed out of any port

on earth I a qualities Mr Powell

tells me she was as steady as a church I mean unrestful in the sense,

for instance in which this planet of ours is unrestful--a matter of an

uneasy atmosphere disturbed by passions, jealousies, loves, hates and the

troubles of transcendental good intentions, which, though ethically

valuable, I have no doubt cause often more unhappiness than the plots of

the most evil tendency For those who refuse to believe in chance he, I

mean Mr Powell, enuousness to the sum of all the others carried by the honest ship

Ferndale He was too ingenuous Everybody on board was, exception

being h in his ith