What ship did you come over in ?" "VILLE DE PARIS." "French, I reckon.

What kind of a passage did ...

excuse me a minute, there's some Americans I haven't seen before." And away he went.

He went uninjured, too--I had the murderous impulse to harpoon him in the back with my alpenstock, but as I raised the weapon the disposition left me; I found I hadn't the heart to kill him, he was such a joyous, innocent, good-natured numbskull.
Half an hour later I was sitting on a bench inspecting, with strong interest, a noble monolith which we were skimming by--a monolith not shaped by man, but by Nature's free great hand--a massy pyramidal rock eighty feet high, devised by Nature ten million years ago against the day when a man worthy of it should need it for his monument.

The time came at last, and now this grand remembrancer bears Schiller's name in huge letters upon its face.