““The devils,” Billiard-Fannon wept, struggling upward. “They’re all about the ship! They want to break in! A cursed vessel, a haunted vessel… we must pray to God! Let us pray!”
“I pray you to shut up,” grunted Capot.”

— Adam Roberts , book Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea

Source: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014), Chapter 16, “Sentence” (p. 151)

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