Joseph Conrad - Freya das Sete Ilhas

The Ship-Woman.
The Cruelest Love
by Joseph Conrad.

“But he turned back to the brig. To see his cherished possession, which had something of Freya’s soul animating it, the only point of support for two lives in this vast world, the security of his passion, the companion in adventures, the force that would seize the calm and lovely Freya, that would bring her to his breast and carry her and take her to the ends of the earth; to see this beautiful thing, which gave a deserved form to his pride and his love, imprisoned at the end of a tow rope, was not a pleasant experience. There was something nightmarish about it, like seeing in dreams, for example, a seabird laden with a weight of chains.”