"I certainly did very wrong to impose upon people as I did, but I've been severely punished for it-- it has made me discontented and unhappy ever since.

Dearly have I paid for my spree; for there is nothing so miserable as to have ideas above your station in life, Mr Simple.

But I must make sail again.

I was three hours with Seraphina before her father came home, and during that time I never was quietly at an anchor for above a minute.

I was on my knees, vowing and swearing, kissing her feet and kissing her hand, till at last I got to her lips, working my way up as regularly as one who gets in at the hawsehole and crawls aft to the cabin windows.