A gentleman-adventurer must live by the hour, and it's surprising how Fortune favours them that trust her.

There was a man I mind, in Breadalbane...." And here he would tell some tale of how light came out of black darkness for the trusting heart.
"Man, Ringan," I said, "I see your kindly purpose.

But tell me, did ever you hear of such a tangle as ours being straightened out?
"Why, yes," he said.

"I've been in worse myself, and here I am.

I have been in a cell at Cartagena, chained to a man that had died of the plague, with the gallows preparing for me at cock-crow.