But we'll dissolve it when and in the manner that I choose, and that will be as soon as you have satisfied the articles under which we sailed upon this cruise.
"What do you mean ?" "I'll be as short as I can," said Captain Blood.

"I'll waive for the moment the unseemliness of making war upon the Dutch, of taking French prisoners, and of provoking the anger of the Governor of Tortuga.

I'll accept the situation as I find it.

Yourself you've fixed the ransom of this couple at twenty thousand pieces, and, as I gather, the lady is to be your perquisite.

But why should she be your perquisite more than another's, seeing that she belongs by the articles to all of us, as a prize of war ?" Black as thunder grew the brow of Levasseur.
"However," added Captain Blood, "I'll not dispute her to you if you are prepared to buy her." "Buy her ?" "At the price you have set upon her." Levasseur contained his rage, that he might reason with the Irishman.
"That is the ransom of the man.