"At what am I valued?
Ten pounds--fifty pounds"-- "At one hundred and twenty pounds of tobacco, madam," I said dryly.

"I will pay it myself.

To what name upon the ship's list do you answer ?" "Patience Worth," she replied.
I left her standing there, and went upon my errand with a whirling brain.

Her enrollment in that company proclaimed her meanly born, and she bore herself as of blood royal; of her own free will she had crossed an ocean to meet this day, and she held in passionate hatred this day and all that it contained; she was come to Virginia to better her condition, and the purse which she had drawn from her bosom was filled with gold pieces.

To another I would have advised caution, delay, application to the Governor, inquiry; for myself I cared not to make inquiries.
The treasurer gave me my receipt, and I procured, from the crowd around him, Humfrey Kent, a good man and true, and old Belfield, the perfumer, for witnesses.