A silence fell upon the court,--a silence that remained unbroken for at least a minute, and passed gently into a deep murmur.

This episode was the sensation of the second day's proceedings--affecting all the audience, affecting everybody except Jim, who was sitting moodily at the end of the first bench, and never looked up at this extraordinary and damning witness that seemed possessed of some mysterious theory of defence.
'So these two lascars stuck to the helm of that ship without steerage-way, where death would have found them if such had been their destiny.

The whites did not give them half a glance, had probably forgotten their existence.

Assuredly Jim did not remember it.

He remembered he could do nothing; he could do nothing, now he was alone.
There was nothing to do but to sink with the ship.