text:  "Oh Athos!" said he tearing his hair and with an explosion of grief doubly affecting in a man of his gigantic frame and iron mould; "Oh Athos! are you indeed gone from us?" At this moment in the midst of the vast circle which the rays of the moon lit up the agitation of the water which had accompanied the absorption of the two men was renewed and there appeared first a quantity of fair hair then a pallid human face with eyes wide open but fixed and glazed then a body which after raising its bust out of the water fell softly backwards and floated upon the surface of the sea