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To the buccaneer's "After you, sir; and, then, your finish, sir!" he seemed to be saying, in the fully-lived spirit of imagination: "A good epitaph, sir! I'll see that it is written on your tombstone!" The father, singularly affected by the mutual and enjoyed challenge that he was witnessing, half expected to see a sword leap out of the scabbard of the canvas and another from Jack's side.
He knew that the Buccaneer's heart was set upon attaining a free pardon; and he also knew that he had some powerful claim upon the interest of Sir Robert Cecil; he knew, moreover, Dalton's principal motive for bringing over the Cavalier; but with all his sagacity, he could not discover why he did not, at once and for ever, set all things right, by exhibiting Sir Willmott Burrell in his true colours.
Morgan, however, had reported that at Porto Bello, as well as in Cuba, levies were being made for an attack upon Jamaica, and Modyford laid great stress upon this point when he forwarded the buccaneer's narrative to the Duke of Albemarle.
In commemoration of his visit the name of Buccaneer's Archipelago was given to the islands that front Cygnet Bay, which bay is so named after his vessel; and on August 26, Roebuck Bay received its name after the ship Captain Dampier commanded when he visited this coast in 1699.
It will be a sore heart to poor Sarah; she has no mother now, nor father, and aunt is not over kind," and again he wept bitterly. "Confound this jumping hand, it won't keep steady, all I can do. I say, Doctor, I shan't die this time, shall I?" "I hope not, my fine little fellow." "I don't think I shall; I shall live to be a man yet, in spite of that bloody buccaneer's pike, I know I shall."
My boy, seeing himself disarmed, sought to cut at the bull's legs, but it gored him and stamped him underfoot. Placed as I was, I could not fire at the animal for fear of finishing my man. I took my large buccaneer's knife and threw myself between them. "But this man is a blockhead," said Croustillac, contemptuously. "If he has no other means of pleasing faith, I pity his mistress."
"You'd do foolishly then, Captain; under favour, very foolishly," replied Robin, yielding to the Buccaneer's humour, and yet seeking to calm it away. "Know ye not that every rose has its own thorns, and every bosom its own stings? Besides," he continued, faintly, "the wealth you speak of will richly dower Barbara; make her a match for a gentleman, or mayhap a knight!" "Did you say a gentleman?
"God, Burrell!" exclaimed Dalton, in a tone of abhorrence, "you are a greater villain than I took you for! Why can't you pay off the girl send her somewhere gild the crime?" "Gold is no object with her; she desires honour." The sympathetic chord of the Buccaneer's heart was touched, for the sentiment echoed his own. "Then who is she?" he demanded; "I'll not stir in it unless I know all."
What if he had done the lines and lyrics to "The Buccaneer's Bride"? That didn't give him any license to unload bush-league stuff for the rest of his career, did it? Begun to look like his first big hit had been more or less of an accident. That being the case maybe it was time for him to fade out. Course, I didn't favor Mr. Robert with all this.
But put that cousin of yours out of the demagogue business if you have to shanghai him." James laughed. "That might not be a bad way to get rid of him till after the election. The word would leak out that he had been bought off." The old buccaneer's eyes gleamed. He was as daring a lawbreaker as ever built or wrecked a railroad. "Have you the nerve, young man?"
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