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A MAN overboard! What matters it! the ship does not stop. The wind is blowing, that dark ship must keep on her destined course. She passes away.
The man disappears, then reappears, he plunges and rises again to the surface, he calls, he stretches out his hands, they hear him not; the ship, staggering under the gale, is straining every rope, the sailors and passengers see the drowning man no longer; his miserable head is but a point in the vastness of the billows.