Here was a weary experience in which he was as utterly condemned to loneliness as in the despair which sometimes threatened him while toiling in the morass of authorship without seeming nearer to the goal.
Hunched up in their ropes they might indeed be rolled down hill like barrels, but most of the way lay through a morass.
The dimensions of this morass of waste are continually morphing, caught in one of the ocean's huge rotating currents.
But where Silver stood with his lieutenant, all was still in shadow, and they waded knee-deep in a low white vapour that had crawled during the night out of the morass.
