ogether lashed side by side and the old man thought newport cigarette, let him bring me in if it pleases
him. I am only better than him through trickery and he meant me no harm.(The old man’s
questioning of himself occurs in the paragraph beginning “Now he knew…”)
They sailed well and the old man soaked his hands in the salt water and tried to
keep his head clear. There were high cumulus clouds and enough cirrus above them
so that the old man knew the breeze would last all night. The old man looked at the
fish constantly to make sure it was true. It was an hour before the first shark hit him.
The shark was not an accident. He had come up from deep down in the water as
the dark cloud of blood had settled and dispersed in the mile deep sea. He had come
up so fast and absolutely without caution that he broke the surface of the blue water
and was in the sun. Then he fell back into the sea and picked up the scent and started
swimming on the course the skiff and the fish had taken.
Sometimes he lost the scent. But he would pick it up again, or have just a trace of
it and he swam fast and hard on the course. He was a very big Mako shark built to
swim as fast as the fastest fish in the sea and everything about him was beautiful
except his jaws. His back was as blue as a sword fish's and his belly was silver and his
hide was smooth and handsome. He was built as a sword fish except for his huge jaws
which were tight shut now as he swam fast newport cigarettes, just under the surface with his high dorsal
fin knifing through the water without wavering. Inside the closed double lip of his
jaws all of his eight rows of teeth were slanted inwards. They were not the ordinary
pyramid-shaped teeth of most sharks. They were shaped like a man's fingers when
they are crisped like claws. They were nearly as long as the fingers of the old man and
they had razor-sharp cutting edges on both sides. This was a fish built to feed on all
the fishes in the sea, that were so fast and strong and well armed that they had no
ot marlboro red cigarettes, cheap newport cigarettes online free shipping newport red cigarettes!
him. I am only better than him through trickery and he meant me no harm.(The old man’s
questioning of himself occurs in the paragraph beginning “Now he knew…”)
They sailed well and the old man soaked his hands in the salt water and tried to
keep his head clear. There were high cumulus clouds and enough cirrus above them
so that the old man knew the breeze would last all night. The old man looked at the
fish constantly to make sure it was true. It was an hour before the first shark hit him.
The shark was not an accident. He had come up from deep down in the water as
the dark cloud of blood had settled and dispersed in the mile deep sea. He had come
up so fast and absolutely without caution that he broke the surface of the blue water
and was in the sun. Then he fell back into the sea and picked up the scent and started
swimming on the course the skiff and the fish had taken.
Sometimes he lost the scent. But he would pick it up again, or have just a trace of
it and he swam fast and hard on the course. He was a very big Mako shark built to
swim as fast as the fastest fish in the sea and everything about him was beautiful
except his jaws. His back was as blue as a sword fish's and his belly was silver and his
hide was smooth and handsome. He was built as a sword fish except for his huge jaws
which were tight shut now as he swam fast newport cigarettes, just under the surface with his high dorsal
fin knifing through the water without wavering. Inside the closed double lip of his
jaws all of his eight rows of teeth were slanted inwards. They were not the ordinary
pyramid-shaped teeth of most sharks. They were shaped like a man's fingers when
they are crisped like claws. They were nearly as long as the fingers of the old man and
they had razor-sharp cutting edges on both sides. This was a fish built to feed on all
the fishes in the sea, that were so fast and strong and well armed that they had no
ot marlboro red cigarettes, cheap newport cigarettes online free shipping newport red cigarettes!
没有评论:
发表评论