Your ransom is fixed at twenty thousand pieces of eight, and you shall have liberty on parole to go to Tortuga to collect it.
In fact, I shall provide the means to convey you thither, and you shall have a month in which to come and go.

Meanwhile, your sister remains with me as a hostage.

Your father should not consider such a sum excessive as the price of his son's liberty and to provide a dowry for his daughter.

Indeed, if anything, I am too modest, pardi! M.d'Ogeron is reputed a wealthy man." M.d'Ogeron the younger raised his head and looked the Captain boldly in the face.
"I refuse--utterly and absolutely, do you understand?
So do your worst, and be damned for a filthy pirate without decency and without honour." "But what words!" laughed Levasseur.

"What heat and what foolishness! You have not considered the alternative.