. Wit bought; or, The life and adventures of Robert Merry . and rigging; the waves thenrose over the stern of the helpless hulk, andswept the whole length of it. Several of thepassengers were hurried into the tide, thereto find a watery grave ; some clung to thebulwarks, and others tried to save them-selves in various ways. Edward was himself plunged into thewaves. His first thought was to yield him-self to his fate without an effort; but the loveof life revived, as he saw it placed in was an expert swimmer, and succeededin getting hold of a spar, and was thus ableto sustain himself
. Wit bought; or, The life and adventures of Robert Merry . and rigging; the waves thenrose over the stern of the helpless hulk, andswept the whole length of it. Several of thepassengers were hurried into the tide, thereto find a watery grave ; some clung to thebulwarks, and others tried to save them-selves in various ways. Edward was himself plunged into thewaves. His first thought was to yield him-self to his fate without an effort; but the loveof life revived, as he saw it placed in was an expert swimmer, and succeededin getting hold of a spar, and was thus ableto sustain himself upon the \vater. The night now grew dark, and Edward,being driven out to sea, was parted from thewreck, and could distinguish nothing but thedashing waves around him. He feared that THE WRECK. 65 his strength would be insufficient to enablehim to keep upon the spar. His anxiety in-creased ; an awe of death which he had neverfelt before sprung up in his bosom, and anintense desire of life, that thing which he hadso recently spurned as worthless, burned in. his bosom : so little do we know ourselvesuntil adversity has taught us reflection. Hisfeelings, however, did not overpower every effort of strength and skill, andrubbing his chilled limbs from time to time,he was able to sustain himself till morningIn this situation, benumbed with th€ 66 WIT BOUGHT. cold, faint and exhausted with exertion, hewas on the point of yielding himself a piey10 the waves, when a pilot-boat came intoview. It gradually approached the spotwhere he was, and at last seemed so neaihim as almost to be within the reach of hisvoice. At this critical moment she made,preparations to tack, and thus change herdirection. Edward noticed these movementswith indescribable anxiety: if she were toadvance a few yards more, he would be dis-covered and saved ; if she were to change herroute ever so little, she would pass by, andhe, unobserved and helpless, would perish,The experience of years seemed now crowde
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