"If he had died--Oh, if he had died, that pale struggling face would have haunted me to my grave.

I had been making one of my speeches to the boys, and it pleased me to see how I could rouse them.

I had just shouted 'Down with the English!' and made them join me, when poor Hal came round the corner.

Nobody would have noticed him if I had gone right on; but I pointed him out, and angry as they were, I could not stop them before they had thrown him into the water.

They thought he could swim, I dare say; but I knew he couldn't.