...was to trust themselves singly on a little plank like that from which Mrs. Hasty, ere landing, had been twice washed off. So at least it may well have seemed to those on board. All we know is that Angelo was in the steward's arms to be taken on shore, when the deck was swept away; and that, by Mrs. Hasty's account, the sailors had just persuaded her [Madame Ossoli] to trust herself to a plank, when t...