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When they were just abreast of me, the girl made some remark which was drowned by the noise of the wind. "Hush!" said her companion; and there was something in the tone with which the word was uttered that thrilled and rather shook my spirits.
That the river is more dangerous than most people imagine, the bleaching bones of many a poor wretch who has been drowned in its treacherous waters fully attest. It is a river to know ere you risk yourself upon or in it. Getting Animals across the River.
But I never recall the distorted face of that poor child, as, in her fearful passion, she told you she wished you were dead, without also remembering that even the gentle Christ said of him who should offend one of these little ones, "It were better for him that a mill-stone were hanged about his neck, and he were drowned in the depths of the sea!" The Inhumanities of Parents Rudeness.
"Yes, so we were very nearly," says Mr. Gower, shaking his head and advancing into the hall with the languid airs of one who has just undergone a strange experience. "But how how?" They all crowd round him now. "Poor aunt and I were nearly drowned," says Mr. Gower pathetically. He takes a step forward, and the water drips from his trousers. He looks back at Miss Gower. "Weren't we?" says he.
Not long since, in a respectable old town in New England, the body of a beautiful girl was drawn from the river in which she had drowned herself, a young girl only fifteen, who came to the city, far from home and parents, and fell a victim to the temptation which brought her to shame and desperation. Many thus fall every year who are never counted.
Carleton was drowned so lately at Ostend, it is not likely another accident should happen at present.
When he was sure that they were out of earshot he asked: "You haven't forgiven me yet?" "You know the conditions," she replied banteringly. "You leave me no alternative to suicide," he protested. "That would be cheating," she said. "You must be drowned honestly, or it's no good." Then he made a foolish reply. He thought her humour forced and it annoyed him. Remember that he was exasperated.
"No," I replied; "'a live dog is worth a dead lion. I shall be drowned when I am three fathoms under water, not before." My companions, I think, attached more heartlessness to my careless manner, and, perhaps, quotation, than I intended; for they made no answer. "My Lord," said D , hurrying up to R , "we must cut away the boom!" "Let it go," answered R , briefly, and with calmness.
In still earlier days, before the advantages of fire were understood, our good grandmothers who sinned were admonished by water they were drowned; but in the reign of Henry III a woman was hanged without strangulation, apparently, for after a whole day of it she was cut down and pardoned.
He sullenly refused to obey the call to yield, until Francesco who now assumed command with a readiness that galled Gonzaga more and more bade one of them go fetch an arquebuse and shoot the dog. At that he cried out for mercy, and came wading to the edge of the tank swearing that if the immersion had not drowned him, it were a miracle but he was poisoned.
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