Are there not even notions of honour left in England?
Oh, and there's more to it than that, even.

D'ye think I could take a commission of King James's?
I tell you I wouldn't be soiling my hands with it--thief and pirate's hands though they be.

Thief and pirate is what you heard Miss Bishop call me to-day--a thing of scorn, an outcast.
And who made me that?
Who made me thief and pirate ?" "If you were a rebel... ?" his lordship was beginning.
"Ye must know that I was no such thing--no rebel at all.

It wasn't even pretended.

If it were, I could forgive them.