History of King Charles the Second of England

Jacob Abbott

Capitolo 17

Catholic priests that always accompanied him as the chaplains and
confessors of his/her family. These people had all extremely ill state,
and you/he/she had been laced in their beds on account of the to roll excessive
of the ship and their his/her own exhaustion and helplessness. The danger
increased, up to that he finally became so extremely imminent that all the
mastery of itself of the passengers was completely gone. In so prolonged
storms, the surges of the maritime strike the ship with appalling strength, and
enormous volumes of fall of water heavily on the bridges, threatening instant
destruction--the ship that dips terribly after the hit, as if sinking
to rise anybody more. To such moments, the noble ladies that accompanied the
queen on this trip would be submerged with terror, and they filled
the boxes with their cries of dismay. This whole duration the queen herself
it was calm and composed. You told the ladies not to fear, for "queens
of England was never drowned."

To a duration, when the storm was to its height, the whole party is
completely submerged with dismay and terror. Two of the ships
you/he/she was submerged and lost. The society of the queen thought that them really it was
sinking. They came crowding himself/herself/itself in the box where the priests were
lying, ill and defenseless and it started all together with to confess their sins
to them, in the Catholic way anxious in these theirs last moments, as
they supposed, to assuage their consciences in some way from the loads
of guilt that oppressed them. The queen herself didn't participate
in these fears. You put in ridiculous the absurd confessions, and it reproached the
inanimate panic to which you/they were producing the terrified penitents;  and
every whenever some mitigation of the violence of the strong wind made possible him
to make some thing to divert the minds of his/her society, she tried to do
fun out of the odd ones and strange dilemmas in which they was
continually put, and the laughable disasters and accidents that
was happening his/her servants and official of state always, in them
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