If I become not an honest gentleman this time you shall pay for it, first with your ears and then with your head." "An' ye're goin' to keep me by ye ?" said Greenway, with an expression not of the best.
"Truly so," said Blackbeard.

"I shall make you my clerk as long as I am a pirate, for I have much writing and figuring work to be done, and after that you shall be my chaplain.

And whether or not your work will be easier than it is now, it is not for me to say." The Scotchman was about to make an exclamation which might not have been complimentary, but he restrained himself.
"An' Master Bonnet ?" he asked.

"If ye go out o' piracy he may go too, and take the oath." "Of course he may," cried the pirate, "and of course he shall; I will see to that myself.

Then I will give him back his ship, for I don't want it, and let him become an honest merchant." "Give him back his ship!" exclaimed Greenway, his countenance downcast.
"That will be puttin' into his hands the means o' beginnin' again a life o' sin.