The business, they declared, must be despatched at once; they had run risk enough, with a conscience; and they must either finish now, or go.
"The choice is yours, gentlemen," said I, "and, I believe, the eagerness.

I am not yet sure that I have anything in your way; even if I have, there are a hundred things to be considered; and I assure you it is not at all my habit to do business with a pistol to my head." "That is all very proper, Mr.Dodd; there is no wish to coerce you, believe me," said Fowler; "only, please consider our position.

It is really dangerous; we were not the only people to see your schooner off Waimanolo." "Mr.Fowler," I replied, "I was not born yesterday.

Will you allow me to express an opinion, in which I may be quite wrong, but to which I am entirely wedded?
If the custom-house officers had been coming, they would have been here now.

In other words, somebody is working the oracle, and (for a good guess) his name is Fowler." Both men laughed loud and long; and being supplied with another bottle of Longhurst's champagne, suffered the captain and myself to leave them without further word.
I gave Nares the correspondence, and he skimmed it through.
"Now, captain," said I, "I want a fresh mind on this.