巩俐为艺术牺牲最大的一场戏

《 巩俐为艺术牺牲最大的一场戏》

　　represented to me. One time, in my sleep, I had the villainy ofthe three pirate sailors so lively related to me by the firstSpaniard, and Friday's father, that it was surprising: they toldme how they barbarously attempted to murder all the Spaniards, andthat they set fire to the provisions they had laid up, on purposeto distress and starve them; things that I had never heard of, andthat, indeed, were never all of them true in fact: but it was sowarm in my imagination, and so realised to me, that, to the hour Isaw them, I could not be persuaded but that it was or would betrue; also how I resented it, when the Spaniard complained to me;and how I brought them to justice, tried them, and ordered them allthree to be hanged. What there was really in this shall be seen inits place; for however I came to form such things in my dream, andwhat secret converse of spirits injected it, yet there was, I say,much of it true. I own that this dream had nothing in it literallyand specifically true; but the general part

　　Upon inquiry we found it was a French merchant ship of three-hundred tons, home-bound from Quebec. The master gave us a longaccount of the distress of his ship; how the fire began in thesteerage by the negligence of the steersman, which, on his cryingout for help, was, as everybody thought, entirely put out; but theysoon found that some sparks of the first fire had got into somepart of the ship so difficult to come at that they could noteffectually quench it; and afterwards getting in between thetimbers, and within the ceiling of the ship, it proceeded into thehold, and mastered all the skill and all the application they wereable to exert.