It was a blow that--but there it was; I have never liked to think of it.

When I do, I shudder.

She was a woman who might have been in other circumstances--but there!" The Judge suddenly stopped in his walk and faced round on his friend.
"Did you ever know, my Solon," he said, "that it was not Jean Jacques who saved Carmen at the wreck of the Antoine, but it was she who saved him; and yet she never breathed of it in all the years.

One who was saved from the Antoine told me of it.

Jean Jacques was going down.
Carmen gave him her piece of wreckage to hang on to, and swam ashore without help.