There's more risk privateering." "Well, then ?" "My folks don't like it.

That's all I know." "But they'll let you go privateering ?" "Yes," I said, with a shrug at my own lack of understanding on that point.
"Privateering's honest business after all." "And free-trading isn't! You'll never make a privateer, mon gars.

You're too much in leading-strings." "I don't know," I said, somewhat ruffled.

"I have seen some service.

We fought a Frenchman in the West Indies, and I've been twice wrecked." "So! Well, we're full up, and business is bad or we wouldn't be lying here." "And you won't give me a trial ?" "No!" "And that's the last word ?" "That's the last word." "Then I'll wish you good-day, monsieur.