For people who have killed other people, and bad things--but to offer a hundred pounds for a free-trader, and fire great guns at him to get it--I never should have thought it of Captain Carroway." "Carroway only does his duty.

I like him none the worse for it.

Carroway is a fool, of course.

His life has been in my hands fifty times; but I will never take it.

He must be killed sooner or later, because he rushes into every thing.