Closing the door behind her, she folded him in her arms.

After a little, leaving the window, they sat together upon a bale of goods, which happened to be a rug from the Orient, of wondrous richness, which Bonnet had reserved for the floor of his daughter's room.
"Never, my dear," he said, "did I dream you would see me in such plight.

I blush that you should look at me." "Blush!" she exclaimed, her own cheeks reddening, "and you an honest man and no longer a freebooter and rover of the sea?
My heart swells with pride to think that your life is so changed." Bonnet sadly shook his head.
"Ah!" he said, "you don't know, you cannot understand what I feel.
Kate," he exclaimed with sudden energy, "I was a man among men; a chief over many.

I was powerful, I was obeyed on every side.

I looked the bold captain that I was; my brave uniform and my sword betokened the rank I held.