Title: Two columns of text and title
Author: WordPress.org
Published: 24 November 2020
Last modified: 2 Juli 2021

---

## **The voyage had begun, and had begun happily with a soft blue sky, and a calm sea.**

They followed her on to the deck. All the smoke and the houses had disappeared, 
and the ship was out in a wide space of sea very fresh and clear though pale in 
the early light. They had left London sitting on its mud. A very thin line of shadow
tapered on the horizon, scarcely thick enough to stand the burden of Paris, which
nevertheless rested upon it. They were free of roads, free of mankind, and the same
exhilaration at their freedom ran through them all.

The ship was making her way steadily through small waves which slapped her and then
fizzled like effervescing water, leaving a little border of bubbles and foam on 
either side. The colourless October sky above was thinly clouded as if by the trail
of wood-fire smoke, and the air was wonderfully salt and brisk. Indeed it was too
cold to stand still. Mrs. Ambrose drew her arm within her husband’s, and as they
moved off it could be seen from the way in which her sloping cheek turned up to 
his that she had something private to communicate.