I can't simply stand by and watch you ruin your life.

An instant later the maid, who looked as tousled and bewildered as if she had that instant been aroused from the deepest sleep, appeared with a card upon a tray.

[…] while you, remote from the scene of suffering, had nothing to lose, and as little to dread, the information reached you like a tale of antiquity, in which the distance of time defaces the conception, and changes the severest sorrows into conversable amusement.

The hulls are four-compartment vessels with thwartships framing, longitudinally braced, with continuous engineroom girders, egg-crated into transverse floors.