"However much and deeply you have sinned against man, if you have not taken life you do not deserve to die.

Besides, there is a way of pardon open to the very chief of sinners." "I know what you mean, Mary, I know what you mean; but--well, well, this is neither the time nor place to talk of such things.

Your little girl, Mr.Mason, is in the hands of the pirates." "I know that," said the missionary, wincing as if he had received a deep wound; "but she is not in _your_ power now." "More's the pity; she would have been safer with me than with my first mate, who is the greatest villain afloat on the high seas.

He does not like our milk-and-water style of robbing.

He is an out-and-out pirate in heart, and has long desired to cut my throat.