I expect the good — ( And yet even he flinches to finish the word. ) Man is greatly overcome by the sincerity of his guilt.

( Because this has been the overwhelming merit of the men that crowd this ship like sardines bursting out of the can, Mr. Briggs has found: sincerity. Kindness. Orderliness. All virtues never lost at sea.

Ah, but he's become embittered, he supposes. No rest for him, not for the wicked. )

To think, he has failed in his one humble duty of providing for thieves. That is, rest assured, what you are, in deed and in character.