But I read upon his face that he is stricken to the heart.

For hours together he will gaze back at France, with the tears running silently down his cheeks.
And his hair has turned from gray to white within the week." De Catinat also had noticed that the gaunt old Huguenot had grown gaunter, that the lines upon his stern face were deeper, and that his head fell forward upon his breast as he walked.

He was about, however, to suggest that the voyage might restore the merchant's health, when Adele gave a cry of surprise and pointed out over the port quarter.
So beautiful was she at the instant with her raven hair blown back by the wind, a glow of colour struck into her pale cheeks by the driving spray, her lips parted in her excitement, and one white hand shading her eyes, that he stood beside her with all his thoughts bent upon her grace and her sweetness.
"Look!" she cried.

"There is something floating upon the sea.

I saw it upon the crest of a wave." He looked in the direction in which she pointed, but at first he saw nothing.