However, I think you are born to good luck, and am confident that your patron saint will look after you, and therefore expect to see you back here in a fortnight's time at the outside." "I hope so with all my heart, Ralph.

It will be no fault of mine if I tarry." "Will you keep the open sea, or skirt the land, Tresham ?" one of the others asked.
"I shall keep the open sea.

The grand master left me to choose my course; but I think there is more danger by the coast--where pirates may be hiding in unfrequented bays, in readiness to pounce upon a passing craft--than in the open sea, where we should have at least the advantage that we could not be taken by surprise, and might make a race of it.

But the sun will be up in a few minutes, and my orders were to set out at sunrise, so I must say goodbye at once." As soon as the vessel was under way, Gervaise took a seat on the poop by the side of Suleiman Ali, and related to him the conversation he had had with the grand master.
"The risk that you will run has not escaped me," the Turk said, "and indeed, I now regret that you were chosen as my escort.

I almost wish that my son had not purchased my freedom at the present time, since it involves the risk of you losing yours.