To what does your boasted secret relate ?" "Matrimony; a wife and no wife; a pretty face and a rich bride: do I speak plain, now, captain ?" "If you know any thing relating to my wife, say it at once; you need not fear for your reward." "Ay, captain, I have drove many a bargain in my time, and sometimes I have been paid in money, and sometimes I have been paid in promises; now the last are what I call pinching food." "Name your price." "Twenty--no, damn it, it's worth thirty dollars, if it's worth a cent!" "Here, then, is your money: but remember, if you tell me nothing worth knowing, I have a force that can easily deprive you of it again, and punish your insolence in the bargain." The fellow examined the bank-bills he received, with a jealous eye, and then pocketed them, apparently well satisfied of their being genuine.
"I like a northern note," he said very coolly; "they have a character to lose like myself.

No fear of me, captain; I am a man of honour, and I shall not tell you a word more, nor a word less than I know of my own knowledge to be true." "Proceed then without further delay, or I may repent, and order you to be deprived of all your gains; the silver as well as the notes." "Honour, if you die for it!" returned the miscreant, holding up a hand in affected horror at so treacherous a threat.

"Well, captain, you must know that gentlemen don't all live by the same calling; some keep what they've got, and some get what they can." "You have been a thief." "I scorn the word.

I have been a humanity hunter.

Do you know what that means?
Ay, it has many interpretations.