Droll, isn't it?
May I be shot if he hadn't been fooled into killing himself! Fooled--neither more nor less.

Fooled into it, by heavens! just as I.

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Ah! If he had only kept still; if he had only told them to go to the devil when they came to rush him out of his bunk because the ship was sinking! If he had only stood by with his hands in his pockets and called them names!" 'He got up, shook his fist, glared at me, and sat down.
'"A chance missed, eh ?" I murmured.
'"Why don't you laugh ?" he said.