ayers, and only one man who steered, and he
made a groaning noise too, which I took to be saying his prayers, but it
seems it was answering to those above, when they called to him to tell
him which way to steer.

Here was no help for me, or for poor Amy, and there she lay still so,
and in such a condition, that I did not know whether she was dead or
alive. In this fright I went to her, and lifted her a little way up,
setting her on the deck, with her back to the boards of the bulk-head;
and I got a little bottle out of my pocket, and I held it to her nose,
and rubbed her temples and what else I could do, but still Amy showed no
signs of life, till I felt for her pulse, but could hardly distinguish
her to be alive. However, after a great while, she began to revive, and
in about half-an-hour she came to herself, but remembered nothing at
first of what had happened to her for a good while more.

When she recovered more fully, she asked me where she was. I told her
she was in the ship yet, but God knows how long it might be. "Why,
madam," says she, "is not the storm over?" "No, no," says I, "Amy."
"Why, madam," says she, "it was calm just now" (meaning when she was in
the swooning fit occasioned by her fall). "Calm, Amy!" says I. "'Tis far
from calm. It may be it will be calm by-and-by, when we are all drowned
and gone to heaven."

"Heaven, madam!" says she. "What makes you talk so? Heaven! I go to
heaven! No, no; if I am drowned I am damned! Don't you know what a
wicked creature I have been? I have been a whore to two men, and have
lived a wretched, abominable life of vice and wickedness for fourteen
years. Oh, madam! you know it, and God knows it, and now I am to die--to
be drowned! Oh! what will become of me? I am undone for ever!--ay,
madam, for ever! to all eternity! Oh! I am lost! I am lost! If I am
drowned, I am lost for ever!"

All these, you will easily suppose, must be so many stabs into the very
soul of one in my own case. It immediately occurred to me, "Poor Amy!
what art thou that I am not? What hast thou been that I have not been?
Nay, I am guilty of my own sin and thine too." Then it came to my
remembrance that I had not only been the same with Amy, but that I had
been the devil's instrument to make her wicked; that I had stripped her,
and prostituted her to the very man that I had been naught with myself;
that she had but followed me, I had been her wicked example; and I had
led her into all; and that, a