"But if it would pay me better to stop for a few hours, I might do so." "To-morrow night, if you will wait till then," Harry said, "I will place three passengers on board, and will pay you your own sum to land them at Flushing, or any other place across the water to which you may be bound.
I will take care that they will make no complaints whatever, or address any remonstrance to you, until after you have fairly put to sea.

And then, naturally, you will feel yourself unable to alter the course of your ship." "But," the captain observed, "I must be assured that these passengers who are so anxious to cross the water are not men whose absence might cause any great bother.

I am a simple man, earning my living as honestly as the times will allow me to do, and I wish not to embroil myself with the great parties of the State." "There may be an inquiry," Harry replied; "but methinks it will soon drop.

They are three preachers of London, who are on their way to dispute concerning points of religion with the divines in Scotland.

The result of their disputation may perchance be that an accord may be arrived at between the divines of London and Edinburgh; and in that case, I doubt not that the army now lying at Dundee would move south, and that the civil war would therefore become more extended and cruel than ever." The captain laughed.
"I am not fond of blackbirds on board my ship," he said.