They don't come and fight with us and get possession of us by force.

They come and buy us.

They buy our land and our homes, and our landowners, for that matter--when they don't buy them, they send their women to marry them, confound it!" He took half a dozen more strides and lifted his shoulders again.
"Beggarly lot as I am," he said, "unlikely as it seems that I can marry at all, I'm hanged if I don't marry an Englishwoman, if I give my life to a woman at all." But, in fact, he was of the opinion that he should never give his life to any woman, and this was because he was, at this period, also of the opinion that there was small prospect of its ever being worth the giving or taking.

It had been one of those lives which begin untowardly and are ruled by unfair circumstances.
He had a particularly well-cut and expressive mouth, and, as he went back to the ship's side and leaned on his folded arms on the rail again, its curves concealed a good deal of strong feeling.
The wharf was busier than before.

In less than half an hour the ship was to sail.