He meant to expire; but before he did so he determined to make his mistress feel what she had done.

Therefore, with a sad nudge of white old nose, he drew her attention to his last expression, sighed as plainly as a man could sigh, and fixed upon her meek eyes, telling volumes.
"I know, I know that it is all my fault," cried Mary, with the brine almost smothering her tears, as she flung her arms around his neck; "but I never will do it again, my darling.

And I never will run away and let you drown.

Oh, if I only had a knife! I can not even cast your bridle off; the tongue has stuck fast, and my hands are cramped.

But, Keppel, I will stay, and be drowned with you." This resolve was quite unworthy of Mary's common-sense; for how could her being drowned with Keppel help him?
However, the mere conception showed a spirit of lofty order; though the body might object to be ordered under.