"As for sacrificing myself, that's done. I'm a man utterly ruined and would cut my throat to-morrow for the sake of my relations, if I cared enough about them. I know my own condition pretty well. I have made a shipwreck of everything, and have now only got to go down among the breakers."

"As for sacrificing myself, I'm utterly ruined in any case. I have made a shipwreck of everything, and have now only got to go down among the waves."
