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"! If his highness would but consider"

"I never considered in my life, and am not going to begin now. I cross the river, if you please, before yon black cloud."

"We must put back—we cannot allow a stranger to perish."

"Gentlemen of the sail, I can assure you it is not my destiny to be drowned; fulfil your agreement or forfeit your dollars."

One of the most pertinacious of the boatmen now began to mutter something about a family at once large and small.

"I can endure no more: when a man