What the most of folks feel badly about they laugh at: it is better so, perhaps.

Yet pity and sympathy are good things in their way.

They help hold society together; and are, I think it likely, about its strongest bonds of union.

As for Weymouth and Donovan, they bore it all very lightly: indeed, they didn't seem to give the subject any great thought, farther than to exclaim occasionally that it was "rough on us," and a "tough one." Sailors always have a vein of recklessness in their mental processes.

It comes from their manner of life,--its constant peril.