During the last eight years you must have run something like forty cargoes, and never lost a keg or a bale; and I doubt if as much could be said for any other craft in the trade.
"Still, one can't calculate on always being lucky.

I don't think anyone would turn traitor, when the whole countryside is interested in the matter; and I wouldn't give much for the life of anyone who whispered as much as a word to the revenue people.

Still, accidents will take place sometimes.

Your father must have done well with the trade, and so have I.
"At any rate, I will leave it in Patsey's hands.

I have enough of them, and to spare.