Oh, yes, I know what fear is, Mr.Percivail." "Then, why don't you show it now ?" he cried.

"Good Lord, I don't mind confessing that I'm scared half to death.

I don't want to die like this,--like a rat in a trap." "But you are not going to die," she proclaimed.

"I too would be groaning and praying in my bed if I thought we were going down to the bottom of zis dreadful ocean.

But we are not.