Chapter 79
Conclusion
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YES; she was drowned, whelmed in the depths of the cruel sea; her last work over. The final ministration of all pursued while the ship ceased to leap, and began to settle down; cheering the soul of the wretched woman who was her companion, and for whom she was dying; making, by her own high example, the passage from this world to the next less terrible to her trembling companion.
At least, so we may gain from the tenor of her life: of a certainty we shall know nothing. Not so much as a hen-coop of the Wainora was ever picked up at sea or on shore. Arkwright and his brave men shall lounge upon the quay no more, forever.