![]() He would dismiss from his mind all ungenerous suspicions about the honesty of builders and contractors. He would put his trust in Providence, which could hardly fail to protect all these unhappy families that were leaving their fatherland to seek for better times elsewhere. He said to himself that she had gone safely through so many voyages and weathered so many storms that it was idle to suppose she would not come safely home from this trip also. Before the ship sailed, however, he succeeded in overcoming these melancholy reflections. These doubts preyed upon his mind, and made him unhappy he thought that perhaps he ought to have her thoroughly overhauled and and refitted, even though this should put him at great expense. Doubts had been suggested to him that possibly she was not seaworthy. He knew that she was old, and not overwell built at the first that she had seen many seas and climes, and often had needed repairs. \)Ī shipowner was about to send to sea an emigrant-ship.
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