When Antonio Zeppa recovered consciousness, he found himself lying on a mattress in the schooner's hold, bound, bleeding, and with a dull and dreadful sense of pain at his breast, which at first he could not account for. Ere long the sudden plash of a wave on the vessel's side recalled his mind to his bereavement; and a cry-loud, long, and terrible-arose from the vessel's hold, which caused even the stoutest and most reckless heart on board to quail.Richard Rosco-now a pirate captain-heard it as he sat alone in his cabin, ...
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When Antonio Zeppa recovered consciousness, he found himself lying on a mattress in the schooner's hold, bound, bleeding, and with a dull and dreadful sense of pain at his breast, which at first he could not account for. Ere long the sudden plash of a wave on the vessel's side recalled his mind to his bereavement; and a cry-loud, long, and terrible-arose from the vessel's hold, which caused even the stoutest and most reckless heart on board to quail.Richard Rosco-now a pirate captain-heard it as he sat alone in his cabin, his elbows resting on the table, and his white face buried in his hands. He did not repent-he could not repent; at least so he said to himself while the fires kindled by a first great crime consumed him.Men do not reach the profoundest depths of wickedness at one bound. The descent is always graduated-for there are successive rounds to the ladder of sin-but it is sometimes awfully sudden. When young Rosco left England he had committed only deeds which men are apt lightly to name the "follies" of youth. These follies, however, had proved to be terrible leaks through which streams of corruption hadflowed in upon his soul.
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