purfoy's

Updated: May 17, 2025

Blunt called up his mate, William Staples, a fellow whom Sarah Purfoy's gold had bought body and soul. William Staples looked at the waxing and waning glow for a while, and then said, in tones trembling with greed, "It's a fire. Lie to, and lower away the jolly-boat. Old man, that's our bird for a thousand pounds!" The Pretty Mary shortened sail, and Blunt and Staples got into the jolly-boat.

Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke - For the Term of His Natural Life