Still he could not speak, pacing the cabin to recover his self-command.
"Monsieur Yvard," he at length said, "I ask your forgiveness sincerely, and from the bottom of my heart.

I did not know you, or such a proposal would never have insulted you, or disgraced a British officer, in my person.

Nelson, too, is the last man living to wound the feelings of an honorable enemy; but we did not know you.

All privateersmen are not of your way of thinking, and it was _there_ we fell into our mistake." "_Touchez-la_," said Raoul, frankly extending his hand.

"Monsieur le Capitaine, you and I ought to meet in two fine frigates, each for his country's honor; let what would be the result, it would lay the foundations of an eternal friendship.