You were so brave in the water, and now the danger is over.

I've had a ducking, that is all.

Ha! ha! ha!" and the little wretch began to laugh.
Hope looked amazed; neither his heart nor his sex would let him change his mood so swiftly.
"Oh, my child," said he, "how can you laugh?
You have been near eternity, and if you had been lost, what should I--O God!" Mary turned very grave.

"Yes," said she, "I have been near eternity.

It would not have mattered to you--you are such a good man--but I should have caught it for disobedience.