8/47 We've taken you out of Albany from the very center of your friends, and you'll never see them again." "Theatricals! theatricals!" said Robert, preserving his gay manner, though his heart was low within him. "A cat has nine lives, but I have ten. I've been twice a prisoner of the French, and my presence here is proof that I escaped both times. When I tire of your society and that of the captain I'll leave you." "No quarreling! no quarreling!" said the slaver. "I never allow it among my men. |