These men and women of Brazil were her brothers and sisters in the great comity of nations, yet Heaven knows they did not figure in such guise during that hour of intense emotions.
But if Dickey Bulmer's simple words exalted him into the kingdom of the heroic, David Verity occupied a lower plane.

Prayers and curses alternated on his lips.

He was stupefied with fear.

He had never seen the lust of slaying in men's eyes, and it mesmerized him.

Many of the sailors wanted to join in on behalf of their friends.