Anastasius: Or, Memoirs of a Greek; Written At the Close of the Eighteenth Century 2
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But I had got too far unassisted to ANASTASIUS. 137 accept of their tardy succour, and resolved to achieve the task alone, or perish in the attempt. Collecting all my remaining strength, I pushed away my officious playmates, and invoking my pro- tecting Saints, strained every still obedient nerve for a final exertion. It exceeded my powers : held back by the weight of Spiridion, I felt myself sink- ing. In this situation, was I by a perseverance which could do my friend no good, to share his un...timely end ? or by abandoning him, at least to save my own life ? — Reason, I suppose, would have said : " Save yourself." Luckily, the dilemma never struck me. I had resigned myself to death, when an enormous billow, which only seemed advancing to swallow us up, flung me upon a shoal just hidden by the waves, of which I had no knowledge. I found means with one arm to chng to the rock, while with the other I grasped my poor Spirro. Thus we remained above water, until a boat, which j ust before had put off to meet me, reach- ed the reef, took us in, and brought us on shore.
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