"And George has come to help him." "Ah, I expected it would come to that," said my grandfather quietly.

"It's a risky business, after all, Phil,"-- to me, sitting on the green-bed and feeling rather sheepish.
"I know, grandfather.

But there are risks in everything, and--" "And, to put it plainly, he wants Carette Le Marchant, and he's not the only one, and that seems the quickest way to her," said George Hamon.
My mother's quiet brown eyes gave a little snap, and he caught it.
"When a lad's heart is set on a girl there is nothing he won't do for her.
I've known a man wait twenty years for a woman--" She made a quick little gesture with her hand, but he went on stoutly-- "Oh yes, and never give up hoping all that time, though, mon Gyu, it was little he got for his--" "And you think it right he should go ?" interrupted my mother hastily.

And, taken up as I was with my own concerns, I understood of a sudden that there was that between my mother and George Hamon which I had never dreamed of.
"I think he will never settle till he has been.

And it's lawful business, and profitable, and your objection to the free-trading doesn't touch it.
There is some discipline on a privateer, though it's not as bad as on a King's ship.