So much the better.' 'So much the worse rather, my friend; for, would you believe it, the old monster, bent double as he is with age and rheumatism, was bright enough to dupe me finely; to dupe me twice.

In the first place, by making me believe you were dead when you were not.

But he well knew, the cheat, that if I refused him once, it was because my views were turned in your direction.' Selkirk made a movement which escaped Catherine; she continued: 'His second deception was to arrive here in triumph, in the midst of the cries of joy and embraces of the _Sea-Dogs_ and _Old Pilots_.

One would have thought he had in his pockets all the mines of Guinea and Peru.

He did not say so, but I thought it could not be otherwise; and I married him, since I believed you no longer living.