And Isidore saw on the sparkling sea a fisher-ship drifting a little way from the shore, but there was no one in it; and on the shore a boat was aground; and half on the sand and half in the wash of the sea there were swathes of brown nets filled with a hundred great fish which flounced and glittered in the sun; and on the sand there was a coal fire with fish broiling on it, and on one side of the fire seven men--one of them kneeling and shivering in his drenched fisher's coat--and on the other side of the fire a benign and majestic figure, on whom the men were gazing in great joy and awe.
