Therefore your lives are justly forfeit, and none would blame us if we slew you.

Yet I spare you both.

If it is possible I will put you back aboard the _Margaret_, and if it is not possible you shall be set free ashore to go unmolested whither you will.
Thus I will wipe out my debt and be free of all reproach." "Do you take me for such a man as yourself ?" asked Peter, with a bitter laugh.

"I do not leave this ship alive unless my affianced wife, Mistress Margaret, goes with me." "Then, Senor Brome, I fear that you will leave it dead, as indeed we may all of us, unless we make land soon, for the vessel is filling fast with water.

Still, knowing your metal, I looked for some such words from you, and am prepared with another offer which I am sure you will not refuse.
Senor, our swords are much of the same length, shall we measure them against each other?
I am a grandee of Spain, the Marquis of Morella, and it will, therefore, be no dishonour for you to fight with me." "I am not so sure," said Peter, "for I am more than that--an honest man of England, who never practised woman-stealing.