"Mason!--the West Indies!" he said, in the tone one might fancy a speaking automaton to enounce its single words; "Mason!--the West Indies!" he reiterated; and he went over the syllables three times, growing, in the intervals of speaking, whiter than ashes: he hardly seemed to know what he was doing.
— Mason, le Indie occidentali! — disse automaticamente e lo ripetè tre volte. Nel pronunziare quelle parole si faceva sempre più pallido.