Said faria , showing to the young man a slender stick about six inches long , and much resembling the size of the handle of a fine painting - brush , to the end of which was tied , by a piece of thread , one of those cartilages of which the abb had before spoken to dant s ; it was pointed , and divided at the nib like an ordinary pen 法里亞一邊說,一邊拿出了一支長約六寸左右的細桿子給那青年看,那細桿的樣子極象一畫筆的筆桿,末端用線綁著一片神甫對唐太斯說過的那種軟骨,它的頭很尖,也象普通的筆那樣筆尖上分成了兩半。