And faith, it's a pretty tale this for a lady's ear." She looked away from him again, and found that her sight was blurred.
After a moment in a voice less steady than before she asked him: "Why should this Frenchman have told you such a tale?
Did he hate this Captain Blood ?" "I did not gather that," said his lordship slowly.

"He related it...

oh, just as a commonplace, an instance of buccaneering ways.
"A commonplace!" said she.

"My God! A commonplace!" "I dare say that we are all savages under the cloak that civilization fashions for us," said his lordship.

"But this Blood, now, was a man of considerable parts, from what else this Cahusac told me.