Anyway, his castle commanded the bay, and the Parliament made up their minds to have it.

Fulke had only time to get a score or so of men with arms and provender inside his gate, when a troop of roundheads came with their guns over the lulls and sat down before it.
"The leader of the troop was a Colonel Frank, a cruel, ruffianly fellow, as you shall hear.

And the second in command was no other than young Captain Morgan himself.
"He had had plenty of rough work during the war, and had done it well.
And it's a pity, sir, all the Parliament's officers weren't of his sort, for he was as unlike Colonel Frank as a house-dog is to a wolf.

When first ordered on this expedition he didn't know where he was going, and you can fancy his horror at finding out that he was to lay siege to the very castle that held his lady-love.

At first he would have held back, and even refused.