That she would despise him, he could not doubt, deeming him no better than all the other scoundrels who drove this villainous buccaneering trade.

Therefore he hoped that some echo of this deed might reach her also, and be set by her against some of that contempt.

For the whole truth, which he withheld from Mademoiselle d'Ogeron, was that in venturing his life to save her, he had been driven by the thought that the deed must be pleasing in the eyes of Miss Bishop could she but witness it..