human
The men have been doing their best, and I have done my best; but it is my opinion and my duty to express it: the ship won't swim four and twenty hours longer, said Mr Gimlet.
gpt
All hands are ready to work on at the pumps and with the buckets until we drop, but the water is rushing in faster than we can pump it out, and should it come on to blow again, no human power can keep the ship afloat.
human
You and all the hands have done your very best, Mr Gimlet, he answered.
gpt
We must manage to keep the ship from going down to-night, and to-morrow morning, at the top of high tide, we will attempt to take her over the bar. It is a question whether we shall succeed, and I am very loth to lose her, but the risk must be run.
human
No doubt about that, sir, answered the carpenter.
gpt
If she once strikes on that bar, she'll never get off again, except piecemeal; but that's better than going to the bottom.