Really, it is too bad to have been beaten so completely by a man who must be nearly double my age.

But, after all, the worst of the whole affair is, that a pirate has escaped me after I actually had him in my arms!--the villain!" "You do not _know_ that he is a villain," said the widow in a subdued tone.
"You are right, mother," said Henry, looking up from the plate of bacon, to which he had been devoting himself with much assiduity, and gazing earnestly into his mother's face,--"you are right and, do you know, I feel inclined to give the fellow the benefit of the doubt; for, to tell you the truth, I have a sort of liking for him.

If it had not been for the way in which he has treated you, and the suspicious character that he bears, I do believe I should have made a friend of him." A look of evident pleasure crossed the widow's face while her son spoke; but as that son's eyes were once more riveted on the bacon, which his morning exercise rendered peculiarly attractive, he did not observe it.
Just then the door opened, and Mr.Mason entered.

His face wore a dreadfully anxious expression.
"Ha! I'm glad to see you, Henry," said he; "of course you have not caught your man.

I have been waiting anxiously for you to consult about our future proceedings.