human
There was a quarter of a mile of ice beyond the ship: I have it very plain in my sight: it was a great muddle of hillocks, for the ice pressed thick and hard, and raised us and vomited up peaks and rocks to the squeeze. Suppose I have been asleep a week?
gpt
Well?
human
I say, he continued in the tone of one easily excited into passion,
gpt
showing his fangs in a sarcastic grin;
human
Are sea and wind to be helped, think you? If the block on which we lie could be detached, it might beat a bit against its parent stock, but would not unite again. The schooner's canvas might be made to help it along--though suppose it capsized!
gpt
We must consider, said he;
human
D'ye know I have a mind to view the plate and money below. What say you?
gpt
Certainly; I should like to see this wonderful booty. It is right that we should find out at once if it is there; for supposing it vanished we should be no better than madmen to sit talking here of the fine lives we shall live if ever we get home.
human
I must go to your cabin: it was the captain's. The keys of the chests should be in one of his boxes.