The weather looked so wild when we started that no one else cared about making the passage.

God bless you, sir, for what you have done! Another half hour and it would have been all over with us.

But it seems like a miracle your getting safe through the rocks to us." "It was fortunate indeed that we came along," Tom said; "three of the passengers are dear friends of mine; and as it was by my persuasion that they came across in the steamer instead of in the yacht, I should never have forgiven myself if they had been lost.

Take all your men below, captain; you will find plenty of hot soup there.

Now, Watkins, let us be off; that steamer won't hold together many minutes longer, so there's no time to lose.