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Duck! Dive! Here comes another one! Wait till the crest-ruffles show! Beyond is smooth water in beauty and wonder -- Shut your mouth! Hold your breath! Dip your head under! Dive through the weight and the wash, and the thunder -- Look out for the undertow!
If Diantha imagined that her arithmetical victory over a too-sordid presentation of the parental claim was a final one, she soon found herself mistaken.