"Although even some o' they should know better, for there's still a few was on Barbados with us, and are acquainted like me and you with Colonel Bishop.

If ye're counting on pulling Bishop's heartstrings, ye're a bigger fool, Ogle, than I've always thought you was with anything but guns.

There's no heaving to for such a matter as that unless you wants to make quite sure of our being sunk.

Though we had a cargo of Bishop's nieces it wouldn't make him hold his hand.
Why, as I was just telling his lordship here, who thought like you that having Miss Bishop aboard would make us safe, not for his mother would that filthy slaver forgo what's due to him.

And if ye' weren't a fool, Ogle, you wouldn't need me to tell you this.