You will run away through fear and put in your place a man who has to face death in order to maintain his family.

Glorious achievement, that! ...

while you would be on land, rich and safe!...

And what are you going to do on land, you coward ?" His egoism hardly knew how to reply to such a question.

He recalled with antipathy his bourgeois existence over there in Barcelona, before buying the steamer.