But since it has been proposed, and by one who has such particular personal cause to hate these English hounds, why, we will honour it--but unofficially." They laughed, and drank the damnation of King James--quite unofficially, but the more fervently on that account.

Then Don Esteban, uneasy on the score of his father, and remembering that the agony of Don Diego was being protracted with every moment that they left him in his dreadful position, rose and announced that they must be returning.
"My father," he explained, "is in haste to reach San Domingo.

He desired me to stay no longer than necessary to embrace you.

If you will give us leave, then, sir uncle." In the circumstances "sir uncle" did not insist.
As they returned to the ship's side, Blood's eyes anxiously scanned the line of seamen leaning over the bulwarks in idle talk with the Spaniards in the cock-boat that waited at the ladder's foot.

But their manner showed him that there was no ground for his anxiety.