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insist on quiet schemes, subdued tints, in keeping with the 
grey sky? That she does insist, and that most peremptorily, 
is evident. Here is our crew, three weeks ago there was no 
bright colour amongst them, now they are blossoming out 
in the very brightest. One man has put on a blazing 
scarlet handkerchief, another wears a faded purple cowl, 
a third wears a scarlet jacket and a sky-blue tie. Even 
their skin Nature has painted with a glowing copper 
Polishing the brass-work. 
colour. They are quite unconscious of the change them- 
selves, I believe. Why this universal insistence on 
harmony of colour, sound, force, and morals ; will this 
'embodied music* play on for ever, or stop with one 
grand, final chord ? 
Tuesday, \%th Oct.— Six weeks out to-day, and it feels 
as if it were years since we left the Tay, and at times as if 
we had been but a long summer afternoon at sea. The 
