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By our Lady, it were downright cowardice to spoil ourselves of every thing for such a risk as this!

Thou know'st nothing of the matter.

I have been in worse peril before, when both mast and freightage have been saved.

Be silent, madman! I am to judge of the peril, not thou. We are driving on the rocks of that very coast from which we departed: yonder gleams the lighthouse on the cliff.

Lord have mercy on us! heaven have mercy on us!

Silence, and hear my commands. All hands to work! life and death hang on your present exertions. It is all in vain! lighten her as you will, it can avail nothing as long as there is a murderer on board.