"I can feel that icy water even now, as it closed round me that wintry night.

It was too dark to see my rescuer's face plainly, but I would know him if I met him fifty years from now.

He was remarkably handsome." "A boy of that age changes very much in a few years." "He could never change so as to grow out of my recollection," said Jennie with a positiveness that made Tom Gordon smile.
"And of all the strange things that were ever done by a child," said Mrs.
Warmore, "none ever equalled what Jennie did while floating in the water." "Indeed, what could that be ?" "Tell him yourself, daughter." The young lady blushed and laughed.
"I don't know what possessed me to do it.

I hardly think I was conscious of matters or responsible for all I did.

When the lad was fighting his way through the icy waters, I remember snatching a chain and locket containing my likeness from my neck, and twisting the chain about a button on his coat.