His cousin stood grasping one of the steering paddles; the ruddy lantern light gleamed on the pirate's frame and face, and made him the perfect personification of a sea-king; he was some grandly stern Poseidon, the "Storm-gatherer" and the "Earth-shaker." When he spoke to Agias, it was in the tone of a despot to a subject.
"The lady is below.

Go to her.

You are to care for her until I rejoin my fleet.

Tell her my sister shall not be more honoured than she, nor otherwise treated.

When I am aboard my flag-ship, she shall have proper maids and attendance.