I never shall forget the looks
with which, when the morning light came, we used to gaze about us over
the stormy waters, for the other boat. We once parted company for
seventy-two hours, and we believed them to have gone down, as they did
us. The joy on both sides when we came within view of one another again,
had something in a manner Divine in it; each was so forgetful of
individual suffering, in tears of delight and sympathy for the people in
the other boat.
I have been wanting to get round to the individual or personal part of my
subject, as I call it, and the foregoing incident puts me in the right
way. The patience and good disposition aboard of us, was wonderful. I
was not surprised by it in the women; for all men born of women know what
great qualities they will show when men will fail; but, I own I was a
little surprised by it in some of the men. Among one-and-thirty people
assembled at the best of times, there will usually, I should say, be two
or three uncertain tempers.
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