We are buried alive in the bowels of the earth.
"Well, and shouldn't I have blasted a hundred rocks, and picked through mountains, to save a hundred lives, or to save one such life as this, no matter whose child she was?
"Ah! you poor scum, you came to me whenever you wanted me, and you never came in vain.

But now that I want you, you smoke your pipes, and walk calmly over this living tomb I lie in.
"Well, call yourselves men, and let your friends perish; I am a man, and I can die." Then he threw himself wildly on his knees over his insensible daughter.
"But my child! Oh God! look down upon my child! Do, pray, see the horror of it.

The horror and the hellish injustice! She has but just found her father.

She is just beginning life; it's not her time to die! Why, you know, she only came here to save her father.

Heaven's blessing is the right of pious children; it's promised in God's Word.