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I cannot in conscience do less." He sought his daughter's eyes. She nodded. "O, damn your conscience!" thought I, my stomach rising in contempt for this noble-looking but extremely faint-hearted privateersman. "Come," I said, rallying him, "we fall in with a Frenchman, or let us suppose an American: that is our object, eh?" "Yes, with an American. That is our object, to be sure."
If our friends overtake your party, it will not be my fault," replied Christy. "You do not expect me to shoot you in that case, I hope?" added the privateersman. "I did not know but that your revolver might go off by accident." "You may be assured that it will not; I claim to be a gentleman and a Christian, and I intend to be fair even to my enemies." "I beg your pardon for my thoughtless remark.
I knew the uselessness of remonstrating with a rapacious privateersman. "Let him send me in," I thought to myself, at first; "it is just where I wish to go; once in, the minister must get me clear. The fellow will only be the dupe of his own covetousness, and I shall profit by it, in the degree that he will be a loser!" I presume Mons.
Of course it was quite possible that they might all three be perfectly harmless merchantmen, but there was a certain smart, knowing look about them eminently suggestive of the privateersman, and if that was their character there could be no doubt whatever that we should find them very objectionable and dangerous neighbours immediately that a breeze happened to spring up.
I make bold to say that the man who can carry these objects out with success has deserved better of the country than the officer of a battleship, tacking from Ushant to the Black Rocks and back again until she builds up a reef with her beef-bones." "Sir," said the angry old sailor, "such an officer is at least in no danger of being mistaken for a privateersman."
"I don't think it would be of any use, for I am too well posted in that way of doing it to be influenced," replied Christy, trying to withdraw his hand from the grasp of the privateersman. "I must go on board of the Teaser again when you have delivered your message to me, as that was what you wished to see me for."
The treaty between the United Netherlands and England had been followed by an embargo upon English vessels, persons, and property, in the ports of Spain; and after five years of unwonted repose, the privateersman again set forth with twenty-five small vessels of which five or six only were armed under his command, conjoined with that of General Carlisle.
Here the pen had dropped from the writer's hand. The boy turned with beating heart: he had struck gold indeed. Unshipping the despatch bag, he slung it about his shoulders. Lifting the pistol, he snatched the chart, and thrust it under the flap of the locked bag. The action set the candle swaling. It shot out a snake-like flame that licked the bald pate of the sleeping privateersman.
At Lisbon, Marquis Santa Cruz, lord high admiral of Spain and generalissimo of the invasion, looked on, mortified and amazed, but offering no combat, while the Plymouth privateersman swept the harbour of the great monarch of the world.
Whatever you do, let me urge you, Gerald, never to turn privateersman; if you were to consult your father, he would, I know, say as I do, for we have often spoken about the matter." "I dare say you are right, Owen," answered Gerald. "If the Ouzel Galley were going at once to sea I would gladly sail in her. The owners, as I heard from my father, intend to give the command of her to you."
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