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by talking so freely of our all going to the bottom? I should be glad to know what right you had to make me come on board the vessel, if you think it so crazy?"

She then ordered the pilot to use all possible expedition for putting her on shore, at the very first jut of land; adding, "you may take the rest of the company round, wherever you chuse, but as to me, I desire to be landed directly."

She could not, however, prevail; but, in the panic which had seized her,she grew as incessant in reproach as in alarm, bitterly bewailing the moment that she had ever trusted herself to such an element, such a vessel, and such guides.

"See," said Harleigh, in a low voice to the stranger, "how little your philosophy has spread; and how soon every evil, however great, is forgotten when over, to aggravate the smallest discomfort that still remains! What recompence, or what exertion would any one

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