"`I knew nothing about it till I looked up," he explained, hastily. And that's possible, too. You had to listen
to him as you would to a small boy in trouble. He didn't know. It had happened somehow. It would
never happen again. He had landed partly on somebody and fallen across a thwart. He felt as though
all his ribs on his left side must be broken; then he rolled over, and saw vaguely the ship he had deserted
uprising above him, with the red side-light glowing large in the rain like a fire on the brow of a hill seen
through a mist. "She seemed higher than a wall; she loomed like a cliff over the boat. . . . I wished I
could die," he cried. "There was no going back. It was as if I had jumped into a well--into an everlasting
deep hole. . . ."
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