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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
