V.

Crash[1]!—a terrific cry broke from three hundred hearts. It was the cry (S. 16, N. 10) the people[2] in the distant vessels of the king had faintly[3] heard on the water. The White Ship had struck upon a rock, and[4] was going down!

Fitz-Stephen hurried[5] the prince into a boat with some few nobles. “Push off,” he whispered, “and row to[6] the land. It is not far, and the sea is smooth[7]. The[8] rest of us must die.”

But[9], as they rowed away fast from the sinking ship, the prince heard the voice of his sister Mary calling[10] for help. He (S. 5, N. 2) never in his life had been so good as[11] he was then. He[12] cried, in an agony: “Row back at any risk! I cannot bear[13] to leave her!”

[1] +Krach!—es erhob sich ein aus drei hundert Kehlen erschallender fürchterlicher Angstschrei.+

[2] the people = one; in = upon.

[3] faintly on the water, +unvollkommen von der See herüber+.

[4] +und war im Sinken begriffen!+

[5] to hurry into a boat, +schnell in ein Boot steigen lassen+; with = and.

[6] +an+, contracted with the def. art.

[7] +ruhig.+

[8] The — us = We others.

[9] Render ‘but’ by +jedoch+, which place before the adverb ‘fast’ (+schnell+); to row away, +sich entfernen+.

[10] See S. 16, N. 4; for, +um+.

[11] Say ‘as at (+in+) this moment’.

[12] The remaining passage will greatly improve by placing the clause ‘Row — risk’ before the words ‘He — agony’. In an agony, +voll Seelenangst+; at any risk, +koste es, was es wolle+.

[13] When there is in a principal clause a transitive verb, the object of which is contained in a following objective clause, which often assumes the form of a supine (i.e. an infinitive with +zu+, see S. 1, N. 2), =the object in the principal clause is frequently supplied by the pronoun +es+, which then may be called the grammatical object.= This is more particularly the case when special emphasis is given to the verb contained in the principal clause; as—

He _liked to hear_ good music.

+Er ~liebte es~, gute Musik ~zu hören~.+

The deed proves, that she speaks the truth.

+Die That ~beweist es~, daß sie die Wahrheit spricht.+

_Section 52._

THE WHITE SHIP.