Kilian came first, very drenched, and spattered, and subdued looking, then Mr.Langenau, leaning upon one of the men, very pale, but making an attempt to smile and speak reassuringly to Sophie, who met him with looks of great alarm.
It evidently gave him dreadful pain to move, and when he reached the house he was quite faint.

Charlotte Benson placed a chair, into which they supported him.
"Run, Pauline, and get some brandy," said Sophie, putting a bunch of keys into my hand without looking at me.
When I came back with the glass of brandy, he was conscious again, and looked at me and took the glass from my hand.

The other man had been sent for the doctor from the village, who was expected every moment, and Mr.Langenau, who was now revived by stimulants, was quite reassuring, and attempted to laugh at us for being so much frightened.
Then the young ladies' curiosity got the better of their terror, and they clamored for the history of the past two hours.

This history was given them principally by Kilian.

I cannot repeat it satisfactorily, for the reason that I don't know anything about jibs, and bowsprits, and masts, and centre-boards, and I did not understand it at the time; but I received enough out of the mass of evidence presented in that language, to be sure that there had been considerable danger, and that everybody had behaved well.