At last,
intoxicated by these feelings, he thought to himself--I am
climbing after her, climbing to the highest pinnacle of happiness.
Up there! Up there! The composure of her manner towards him, her
freedom from embarrassment, maddened him. Up there! Up there! And
ever as they mounted she became more spirited, he more distressed.
Up there! Up there! His eyes grew dim, for a few seconds he could
not move, could not speak. Then she had said, "Now you must look
at the sea."
He seemed to see with different eyes, to be endowed with new
sensations, and these new sensations gave answer to what the
distant mountains had said. They answered the sea out there before
him, the island-studded sea, the open sea beyond, the wide
swelling ocean, the desires and destinies of life all the world
over. The sea lay steel-bright beneath the suffused sunlight, and
seemed to gaze on the rugged land as on a beloved child instinct
with vital power. Cling thou to the mighty one, or thy strength
will be thine undoing!
And many of the inventions which he had dreamed of loomed vaguely
before him. They lay outside there.
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