I've been doubly a fool, Peter, in kidnapping you a second time after the first warning, and in allowing myself to be tolled up under the broadside of that sloop.

It's the last that hurts me most.

I behaved like any youngster on his first cruise." Robert said nothing, but did his best to support the wounded man, who was now bearing upon him very heavily.

His own strength was largely factitious, coming from the hope that they would soon find shelter and a real place in which to rest, but such as it was it was sufficient for the time being.
He did not look back again.

Like the slaver, he wanted to shut out the sea for the present.