I smiled at him, and told him that men in our circumstances were past the operation of fear; that seeing almost every condition that could be was better than that which we were supposed to be in, we ought to expect that the consequence, whether death or life, would be sure to be a deliverance.
Ik lachte er om, en zeide, dat menschen in onzen toestand boven de vrees verheven waren; dat aangezien schier elke bedenkelijke toestand beter was dan die, waarin wij rekenen mogten te zijn, wij op bevrijding, hetzij dan levend of door den dood, behoorden bedacht te zijn.