I am disappointed myself, sir, but I have been disappointed so often that I suppose I ought to be used to it.

If I had caught up with Blackbeard I should have been all right, and after I had settled your affairs--and I know I could have done that--I think I would have joined him.

But all I can do now is to hammer along at the business, take prizes in the usual way, and wait for Blackbeard to come south again, and then I'll either sell out or join him." "It is a great pity, sir," said Mr.Delaplaine, "a great pity--" "Yes, it is," interrupted Ichabod, "it's a very great pity, sir, a very great pity.

If I had known more about ships when I bought the Restless I would have had a faster craft, and by this time I might have been a man of comfortable means.

But that sloop over there, bedad, is so slow, that many a time, sir, I have seen a fat merchantman sail away from her and leave us, in spite of our guns, cursing and swearing, miles behind.
I am sorry to have you leave me, sir, and with your ladies; but, as you say, here's your chance to get home, and I don't know when I could give you another." Mr.Delaplaine replied courteously and gratefully, and by the next boat he went back to the Restless.