He was thief and pirate in her eyes; nothing more, nothing less.

What, then, was she?
What are those who have no charity?
he asked the stars.
Well, as she had shaped him hitherto, so let her shape him now.

Thief and pirate she had branded him.

She should be justified.

Thief and pirate should he prove henceforth; no more nor less; as bowelless, as remorseless, as all those others who had deserved those names.