Honest free-trading isn't in it compared with the privateering, though even that isn't what it was, they say.

Like everything else, it is overdone, and many mouths make scant faring.

And so you want to go out with Torode ?" he asked musingly.
"That is my idea.

You see, monsieur, I have spent nearly four years in the trading to the Indies, and I am about as well off as when I started--except in experience.

Now I want to make something--all I can, and as quickly as I can.