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| 8 | 767 | "As we are now overtaken, View more quotes about helpless">helpless, and unable to run," said the keeper, "it is now time, I conjecture, to show our desperation". |
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| 8 | 764 | His drum stopped, and his oars, lifted, dripping water, were poised. |
| 8 | 765 | The stranger then rocked, quietly, surveying us. |
| 8 | 766 | He was no more than forty or fifty yards from us. |
| 8 | 767 | "As we are now overtaken, helpless, and unable to run," said the keeper, "it is now time, I conjecture, to show our desperation". |
| 8 | 768 | "I do not understand," I said. |
| 8 | 769 | "Is it not time to repel boarders?" asked the keeper. |
| 8 | 770 | "I fear we would meet with little success," I said. |