The String of Pearls (1850), p. 715
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The String of Pearls (1850), p. 715
"Hands off!" growled a voice. "Everybody for himself here. Hands off, I say." | occasion k A better I I Mi 1 ! and: it wa;^ ia this world, r sat tlbis m expectation at 3> THE STRING OF PEARLS. 715 " Hands off !" growled a voice. " Everybody for himself here. Hands off, " What do you mean P" said Todd. ",Do you speak to me Y y " Some one has got hold of my leg!" " Oh, I dare say I have/' said Todd, " but I didn't know. There, I have " Danger ! I rather think there is, I suppose you are the love of a pas- " Yes, I am the passenger," said Todd. Why he should be called a love n Why, as to danger," said the man, " that's rather past, I reckon ; but, per- ■* To what?" " To be drowned, some day or night, as I have.* "Oh, no— no! Don't say that. Drowing is a very dreadful death, indeed. " It may, or it may not be so," said the man, " but whether it is or not, you "Yes. It's all up with her, and it will soon be all down with her, u But the ship goes easier through the sea." "Oh, ah, she's filling, you see, and settling lower down in the water, so you " You can't mean that ? You do not mean to tell me that there is no hepe? "Well, you can please yourself. I can tell you that the rudder has gone — " Did you say we were drifting to shore ?" " A lee-shore." " Oh, dear. I'm gl&d to hear it. Any shore will do for me, if I can but get " It is. We are on the Sussex coast, somewhere, but I can't take upon my- " But I can't swim at all." u It don't matter a bit." " hut, my dear friend " Hold your row— I am not your dear friend nor anybody else's, just now. This information was to Todd of so deplorable a character— for to none is v Oh, no — no !" he cried. " I cannot die yet— L must not. Spare me— " Oh, you stupid," said the sailors. * That cums now of not having had a |