Our doctor, and two gentlemen, and a sailor went out from our little bay below, and shortly after there came on a thick darkness, with heavy rain, and they were all lost, every one of them! Poor Renouf! he was a good friend of mine.

And our doctor, too! If I had been here, maybe I might have persuaded them not to brave it." It was a sad story to hear, yet just then I did not pay much attention to it.

I was too much engrossed in my own difficulties and trouble.

So far as my experience goes, I believe the heart is more open to other people's sorrows when it is free from burdens of its own.

I was glad when Tardif took up his load again and turned his back upon the sea..