Do you hear me, friend ?" added he, speaking rather hastily, for the boatman took no apparent notice of his instructions.
"We hear you, Monsieur," said the man, "but it is impossible; we could not do it." "Ah, nonsense!" answered the Chevalier: "not do it--I say you must do it.

I wonder you should hesitate for a moment, when you know how M.de Lescure is suffering, and how much those ladies have to go through.

Turn the boat down the stream at once, I tell you." "It is quite impossible," said the old man doggedly, and still holding on to his course; "we should only upset the boat and drown you all.

We could never push her through the current on the other side, could we Jean ?" "Quite impossible," said the other.

"We should only be carried down into the rushes, or else be upset in the stream." "Nonsense!" said Arthur.