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What meanest thou? On which of my passengers or crew dost thou fix such a horrible charge?

To that man yonder, your noble Danish passenger. If the devil have him not presently under the waves, neither ship nor one soul of all her living freight will be afloat one hour longer.

Thou speak'st in distraction.

I know that sound in the blast: no natural tempest ever bellows so.

Heaven have mercy upon us! it is a fearful sound!

There be fiends on the clouds and on the waves; they are roaring for their prey, and in God's name cast it to them instantly.

Thou art beside thyself! how knowest thou he is a murderer?

I heard him utter exclamations when he thought there was no one near him. Question