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 just think of the wrecks that to-night will be shattered;-
 * and think, too, what corpses will drive ashore!

PEER
 * Lord save us!

THE PASSENGER
 * Have ever you seen a man strangled,
 * or hanged,-or drowned?

PEER
 * This is going too far-!

THE PASSENGER
 * The corpses all laugh. But their laughter is forced;
 * and the most part are found to have bitten their tongues.

PEER
 * Hold off from me-!

THE PASSENGER
 * Only one question pray!
 * If we, for example, should strike on a rock,
 * and sink in the darkness-

PEER
 * You think there is danger?

THE PASSENGER
 * I really don't know what I ought to say.
 * But suppose, now, I float and you go to the bottom-

PEER
 * Oh, rubbish-

THE PASSENG