Tell me of my good friend Captain Jack.

Ah! if he could have but stuck to honest trade, he and I might have made our fortunes together ere now.

Never was such a figure for showing off coat or vest or sash, or a head upon which a peruke sat with a daintier grace.

But come, let us sit down together and quaff a cup of wine, and you shall tell me all your history." Dusk was falling between the high walls of the houses, and business was over for the day.

Cale led his guest into a room on the basement floor, where a simple but substantial refection had been laid out.