He found by trial that the Florence was not grounded very hard on the beach, for the tide was rising, and he drew the boat farther up from the water, as he turned to walk away from the spot.
"Am I to understand that you retire from this enterprise, Captain Carboneer ?" asked Mulgate.
"Am I to understand that you renounce your scheme to carry off a woman as a part of the enterprise ?" demanded the captain.
"I do not renounce it, though I have no intention to carry off a woman, as you put it.

The most I have asked is that she be permitted to go as a passenger of her own free will," replied Mulgate.
"She never will go with him of her own free will," interposed Corny.
"I will not have a woman on board of the vessel, whether she goes willingly or otherwise.

Do you renounce that scheme entirely ?" "I think you are driving me into a small corner, Captain Carboneer." "After what you have said before, I think I am fully justified in what I require.

With your private affairs, I have nothing to do.

If you choose to marry this young lady, I have nothing to say about that; but no woman can be a passenger in a war vessel under my command.