Careful search is being made for some survivor of the shipwreck.

It may prove successful; yes, even before the time appointed for the drawing of this lottery.

You have no right to say that Ole Kamp is dead, so long as we have no proof that he perished in the catastrophe.

The reason I speak with less apparent assurance before your children is that I do not want to arouse hopes that may end in bitter disappointment.

But to you, Dame Hansen, I can say what I really think, and I can not, I will not believe that Ole Kamp is dead! No, I will not believe it!" Finding herself thus worsted, Dame Hansen ceased to argue the question, and this Norwegian, being rather superstitious in her secret heart, hung her head as if Ole Kamp was indeed about to appear before her.
"At all events, before parting with the ticket," continued Sylvius Hogg, "there was one very simple thing that you neglected to do." "What ?" "You should first have applied to your personal friends or the friends of your family.