Sinking Quote by Lesley Livingston
““And trust me when I tell you, Fallon, this trunk holds the key to both our fortunes.” He sat down heavily on top of it and wrung the water from his sleeves. I could only stand there, blinking at him dumbly as the firelight from the sinking galley was extinguished in the cold black waves. I couldn’t, in that moment, remember ever having told him my name.””
![“That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws; and every step of intestine discord was marked by some deplorable victory of savage man over civilized society.” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/70c/edward-gibbon-710_barbarism_that-country-carthage-was-rapidly-sinkin_393.jpg)
