You are, as I understand it, sent to Virginia for sale ?" "Yes." "For how long a term ?" "The sentence was twenty years." "Hela! and you go to the highest bidder.

I'll do it, fellow! To actually own a Carlyle of Bucclough will be a sweet revenge." "You mean," I asked, dimly grasping his purpose, "that you propose buying me when we reach shore ?" "Why not?
A most excellent plan; and I owe it all to a brat I met in London.

Egad! it will be some joke to tell when next I visit England.
'Twill count for more than were I to tweak the Duke's nose." I stopped his laughter, smiling myself grimly in the darkness.
"A very noble plan for revenge," I admitted, enjoying the swift check-mating of his game.

"And one which I am not likely to forget.
Unfortunately you come too late.

It happens, Senor, that I am already safely indentured to Roger Fairfax." "To Fairfax?
She told you that ?" "Who told me can make no difference.