Besides that, he is a great annoyance to me, and I have long been trying to get rid of him.
When I left Bridgetown I had not intended to take him with me, and his presence on board my ship was a mere accident.

Since then he has made himself very disagreeable." "What!" cried Kate, "would you be willing that we should all sail away and leave poor Ben Greenway in this place by himself among these cruel pirates ?" "He'll represent Blackbeard," said Bonnet, "and no one will harm him.
And, moreover, this enforced stay may be of the greatest benefit to him.
He has a good head for business, and he may establish himself here in a very profitable fashion and go back to Barbadoes, if he so desires, in comfortable circumstances.

All we have to do is to slip our anchor and sail away at some moment when he is busy in the town.

I will leave ample instructions for him and he shall have money." "Father, it would be shameful!" said Kate.
Mr.Delaplaine said nothing; he was too angry to speak, but he made up his mind that Ben Greenway should be apprised of Bonnet's intentions of running away from him and that such a wicked design should be thwarted.
This brother-in-law of his was a worse man than he had thought him; he was capable of being false even to his best friend.

He might be mad as a March hare, but, truly, he was also as sly and crafty as a fox in any month in the year.
Wise Mr.Delaplaine! The very next morning there came a letter from Stede Bonnet to his daughter Kate, in which he told her that it was absolutely impossible for him to return to the humdrum and stupid life of sugar-planting and cattle-raising.