\"Ah—I've had to. I've had to look at the Gorgon.\"
\"Well—it hasn't blinded you! You've seen that she's just an old bogey like all the others.\"
\"She doesn't blind one; but she dries up one's tears.\"
The answer checked the pleading on Archer's lips: it seemed to come from depths of experience beyond his reach. The slow advance of the ferry-boat had ceased, and her bows bumped against the piles of the slip with a violence that made the brougham stagger,
\"Ah—I've had to. I've had to look at the Gorgon.\"
\"Well—it hasn't blinded you! You've seen that she's just an old bogey like all the others.\"
\"She doesn't blind one; but she dries up one's tears.\"
The answer checked the pleading on Archer's lips: it seemed to come from depths of experience beyond his reach. The slow advance of the ferry-boat had ceased, and her bows bumped against the piles of the slip with a violence that made the brougham stagger,
