It would have been disloyalty, which not even the possession of your fair hand could justify.

And you refused his offer ?" "That did I," said Kate, her face flushing at the recollection of the unpleasant interview with the captain; "I cared not for him, and even had I, I would not have consented to wed a man who offered me his dishonour as a bribe for doing so.

Not even for my father's life would I become the bride of such a one!" "Well spoken, Mistress Bonnet," exclaimed the Governor, "your heart, though a tender, is a stout one.

But this you tell me of Captain Vince is very bad; he is a vindictive man and will have what he wants, even without regard to the means by which he may get it.

I am glad to know what you have told me, Mistress Bonnet, and if I had known it betimes I would not have sent, in pursuit of your father, a man whose anger had been excited against his daughter.