Seele, Francesca Maria: Spoilt Guy. v1. 28 Dec 2016
 

Francesca Maria Seele: Born : 1848: Died : 1931 Aug 16 Stroud, Gloucestershire, England

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The “ Pelican ” was steaming across the Bay of Biscay; the sky was dull and cloudy as November skies generally are; there was a slight breeze, but the sea was calm, so calm that many of the passengers, who were crossing the Bay for the first time, were inclined to think that the stories they had heard of its terrors were groundless. Some of them were, perhaps, even a little disappointed to find it so calm, for we are seldom contented with the weather whatever it may be, and it was certainly monotonous work, gazing hour after hour on a weary waste of waters, with only a passing vessel or a few porpoises to vary the scene.