I want to try that.

What do you say ?" "Some have done mightily well at it--" "You see," I said eagerly, "there is only that or the free-trading, or the West Indies again, or a King's ship--" He nodded understandingly.
"And none of them hold any very big chances--except the free-trading.

And there--" "I know! Your mother won't hear of it.

She has her reasons, my boy, and you can leave it at that ...

She won't like the privateering either, you know, Phil," he said doubtfully, as though he did not care over much for the job he was being dragged into.
"I'm afraid she won't, Uncle George.