Constant (джен)

"I am ashamed," Fernand whispered. "Someone cut me loose from the net, and I kicked him down on my way to the surface. I did not know who it was, or care, so long as I could breathe again. My uncle went down with his boat and his crew, but I—what sort of man am I?"
A number of occasions on which Fernand Mondego (later known as the Count of Morcerf) refused to die.