But I have no time to talk of rubies, for death has caught me at last, through my own fault as usual.

If you ever take a drop, Outram, be warned by me and give it up; but you don't look as if you did; you look as I used to, before I learnt to tackle a bottle of rum at a sitting.
"Now listen, comrade, I am in a hole, not about myself, for that must have come sooner or later, and it does not much matter when the world is rid of a useless fellow like me; but about my girl here.

What is to become of her?
I have not got a cent; those cursed slavers have cleared me out, and she has no friend.

How should she have, when I have been thirty years away from England?
"Look here, I am going to do the only thing I can do.

I am going to leave my daughter in your charge, though it is rough on you, and as you deal with her, so may Heaven deal with you! I understand that there was some ceremony of marriage between you down yonder.