I do not know how to thank you for it." "Then don't thank me at all, Mr.Bingham.Why should you thank me?
I only did what I was bound to do.

I would far rather die than desert a companion in distress, of any sort; we all must die, but it would be dreadful to die ashamed.

You know what they say, that if you save a person from drowning you will do them an injury afterwards.

That is how they put it here; in some parts the saying is the other way about, but I am not likely ever to do you an injury, so it does not make me unhappy.
It was an awful experience: you were senseless, so you cannot know how strange it felt lying upon the slippery rock, and seeing those great white waves rush upon us through the gloom, with nothing but the night above, and the sea around, and death between the two.

I have been lonely for many years, but I do not think that I ever quite understood what loneliness really meant before.