He had made an attempt to comfort her one night on the voyage to the Isle of Palms, when she and Poopy and he were left alone together; but he failed.

After one or two efforts he ended by bursting into tears, and then, choking himself violently with his own hands, said that he was ashamed of himself, that he wasn't crying for himself but for her (Alice), and that he hoped she wouldn't think the worse of him for being so like a baby.

Here he turned to Poopy, and in a most unreasonable manner began to scold her for being at the bottom of the whole mischief, in the middle of which he broke off, said that he believed himself to be mad, and vowed he would blow out his own brains first, and those of all the pirates afterwards.

Whereupon he choked, sobbed again, and rushed out of the cabin as if he really meant to execute his last awful threat.
But poor Corrie only rushed away to hide from Alice the irrepressible emotions that nearly burst his heart.

Yes, Corrie was thoroughly subdued by grief.