CHAPTER VI.
"I love a devious path that winds askance,
And hate to keep one object still in view;
The flowers are fragrant that we find by chance—
And in both life and nature I would rather
Have those I meet than those I come to gather."
The Brunswick.
"Ah, 'tis a pleasure that none can tell,
To feel you're the wild wave's master."
"Impossible! If his highness would but consider"
"I never considered in my life, and am not going to begin now. I cross the river, if you please, before yon black cloud."
"We must put back—we cannot allow a stranger to perish."
"Gentlemen of the sail, I can assure you it is not my destiny to be drowned; fulfil your agreement or forfeit your dollars."
One of the most pertinacious of the boatmen now began to mutter something about a family at once large and small.
"I can endure no more: when a man be-
