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                                                            ...and the fog hid the banks.
      “We were sort of silly even to start,” Sten said.
      “The whole world’s like one great sea; all the shores will be gone in a minute. Rowan Island is like the last, remote coast,” said Mariana dully, wrapping herself in Sten’s heavy coat.
      “That’s the coast we’re steering for.”
      “But not yet; let’s drift a while first.”

ex Sally Salminen, Mariana (Barrows Mussey, trans., 1940) : 276-277
Swedish original (Den Långa Våren / The Long Spring, 1939) : 319
 

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