Your brother is safe, the ship is lost, and we are made men.
"Are you certain she's lost?
asks George.

It would be an awful blow after all the agonies I have gone through in my mind, since you first spoke to me, if she were to be got off--and--and--all this temptation to begin over again.

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For we had nothing to do with this; had we?
"Of course not, says Cloete.